In this course, we shall engage some of the prominent contemporary changes related to identities, communities, relationships, authority, language, labor etc., in order to understand them as products of a technocultural change. We shall examine the cases where slight changes in hardware or software spawn new social norms and cultural worlds, alongside cases where social, cultural and economical forces subvert the values embedded in the technology. We shall build an interface for the analysis of questions such as technology and language change, digital and disembodied identity, the move from face to face to algorithm mediation, the shifting value of privacy, the value of sharing between participatory culture and audience labor, the value of community between the wisdom of crowds and trolling/shaming mobs, etc.