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AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES (L98)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SU2024
L98 AMCS 301TTopics in AMCS: Hacker Histories3.0 Units
Description:Ransomware, malware, viruses, trojans, key loggers. Hoodies and laptops. Red team blue team. The figure and mythology of hackers are coded in lexicons that promote both obscurity and prowess as unseen manipulators of invisible infrastructures. Common depictions often analogize these practitioners as frontiersmen operating beyond law and control, fluctuating between unstable tropes of antiheroes and bandits. We're taught these bad actors operate in silence to commit bad acts, leveraging our dependency on the convenience of technology (and weak passwords) to do.hopelessly complicated things. Our goal is to see past the mythic articulations to understand the origins and practices of hacking cultures so we better understand how our digital commonality is engineered as a robust and enduring 'thing' where vulnerability is both feature and bug. Doing so makes visible the politics of making and unmaking, solutionism, and iterative engineering. We'll interrogate the hacker narrative construct in media to understand how we know so little about the ecosystem we depend upon. We'll investigate how it all works from a design and engineering perspective to see how form and function frame our social habits of consumption, our political expectations, and our definitions of comfort, safety, and anxiety.
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BAEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Tuition:$3,660.00 Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
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21MTWRF--11:00A-12:45PEads / 116 WalshPaper/Project/Take Home1930
SUM-2Start: 6/10/2024   End: 7/12/2024
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