Fandom and Popular Culture in the Digital Age Coursera

Overview

How might what we love - what we watch, what we read, what we post - make our communities healthier and more vibrant? This question guides this Fandom and Popular Culture in the Digital Age Specialization offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Colorado Boulder. 

In our networked and information-saturated world, three vital needs emerge: representing identity in digital media, interrogating the products of culture, and engaging meaningfully with digital communities.

Key facts

• This course addresses these needs by inviting you into a space of reflection at the intersection of fandom, popular culture, and digital media. More than at any point in human history, these forces have put at our fingertips the means to create and disseminate ourselves in the world. 

• You will explore the products of popular culture and trace the fan networks that sustain and derive value from them. Along the way, the course will train you to recognize relationships between popular culture and the political and commercial forces that shape its publication, distribution, and consumption.

Advance your subject-matter expertise

• Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts

• Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects

• Develop a deep understanding of key concepts

• Earn a career certificate from University of Colorado Boulder

Skills you'll gain

• Communication

• Social Media

• Critical Thinking

• Culture