In this advanced course students will engage with the main currents of contemporary intellectual thought concerned with digital technologies and emergent media. Focusing on the relationships between social theory, method, and practice, the course is organized around the following core themes: information; mediation; materialism; practice. Students will be able to explore and debate the significance of technological change in the production, circulation and uses of culture in the present moment. There will be scope to engage with concepts of interactivity, mobility, speed, reflection, reflexivity, virtuality, consumption, in the context of different spaces or objects (city; home; archive; gallery; memory, sounds, visions, events, body, etc.) and practices (photography, art, writing, listening, tourism, reporting, etc.) which exemplify contemporary debates about new media in cultural sociology.