Ideas for Final Projects

Following is a list of general topics for your final papers. I'll add more as I think of them. Of course, if you have an idea for a project that is not included here, let me know!

• video games and gaming culture; development of graphics and types of games over the past decades; the gaming industry (economics, culture of), etc.


• the way digital computers have affected the arts such as music, film/video, performance, poetry; new forms of art that were not possible before computers, etc.


• interface design; interfaces of commercial sites (such as Yahoo! and Google) and how they have changed and/or affected income; graphic design (comparison of print design and web design, for example), etc.


• report on one of the writers we will be reading this semester, or another writer important to the world of digital culture that you have discovered yourself; a general "theory" paper that tries to discuss the future of digital culture, etc.


• a detailed analysis of a website that you are particularly fond of, or critical of (Amazon, for example, or even the Richard Stockton website); general survey of blogging software; survey of media outlets on the web from the mainstream to the underground, etc.


• the use of digital technology in education, including teaching students how to use digital technology to complete their own coursework; digital technology in therapy; alternative theories of education that rely on digital technology, etc.


• the way that electronic networking systems and digital projection/sound systems have altered the way people either meet each other, socialize with each other (how these technologies operate in clubs, bars, the school, etc);


• what role digital technology has played in the design of items we use every day (from sneakers and television to the architecture of buildings we enter), etc.


• technology as it relates to issues of governance, surveillance, war, revolution, philanthropic issues, religious institutions, developing nations or nations with repressive regimes, activism, etc.