Full Course Title:
Victims and Offenders in the Digital Age
Think about your everyday life; there is a good chance you indulge in some capacity with the digital realm of society. Whether scrolling through Instagram, Tik Tok, or the News, we encounter digital platforms every day. You may have heard of cyberbullying, devious licks, white woman syndrome, revenge porn, sexual exploitation, or many other terms commonplace within the digital age. In this course we will discover and analyze the perceptions of victims and offenders created within these new media forms. In exploring some of these behaviors and concepts we will gain a better sense of the diversity of deviance possible within society. More specifically, we will discover how new media forms may help create, maintain, and perpetuate ideas around deviance, and enable new forms of deviance in a quickly changing world.