Graduation Year
2018
Date of Submission
12-2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Intercollegiate Media Studies
Second Department
Computer Science
Reader 1
Mark Andrejevic
Reader 2
James Morrison
Terms of Use & License Information
Rights Information
© 2017 Ryan D. Sung
Abstract
The purpose of “The Digital Puppetmaster” is to provide a means of awareness and a suggestion of mindset for members of the digital age. The digital medium has come to define society and establish its existence as an increasingly omnipresent one. Fundamentally, the digital medium is a sandbox for creating worlds that transcend the limitations of real life. Given the unlimited potential of the digital medium, it becomes apparent that it is easy to show what people want to see and hide what they do not. I aim to bring to light and uncover the realities of the digital medium and how the larger powers that control it take advantage of society. Society at large perpetuates a dangerous mentality of blindly trusting technology and believing that it has their best intentions in mind. I make the case that the ones who control the digital world are the ones who created ground zero for this way of thinking.
Recommended Citation
Sung, Ryan, "The Digital Puppetmaster" (2018). CMC Senior Theses. 1791.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1791
