This seminar provides students with a theoretical toolkit to understand, analyze and evaluate media-society relations in the contemporary world. Students will, through reading and writing, become familiar with social theories that intersect with questions and issues related to media production, distribution and consumption. These theories range from historical materialism, culturalism, new materialism, network society, public sphere, feminist and queer studies, critical race theory, disability media theories, and so on. Special attention is paid to the mutually constitutive relations between digital media and contemporary societies and cultures.