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Fall 2020 Course - Privacy, Publicity, and the Text Message

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  • Grant Wythoff
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Privacy, Publicity, and the Text Message - AMS 343 / ENG 238 / HUM 342

W: 1:30-3:20 PM

This seminar will explore how we negotiate the distance between ourselves and others through text messages. Texts sustain an ambient intimacy that is increasingly redefining borders that range from the interpersonal--via anonymous mental health support--to the international--via reporting platforms for immigrant communities. What technical and social expectations of privacy do we operate with when sending a point-to-point message? How do novelists incorporate text messages into works of fiction? What does it mean that Frank Ocean can sing, "you text nothing like you look"?

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