INF STD 20
Digital Cultures and Societies
Lecture, four hours. Examination of social and cultural contexts of global digital networks and systems. Exploration of ethical, infrastructural, and political questions raised at intersection of technologies and cultures. Topics include data surveillance, algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) systems, digital economies and labor, social media revolutions, indigenous and non-Western uses of technology, digital media literacies, and more. Letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.63
- n = 255 · 5 terms · ± 0.033
- A range
- 75%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 0%
- — of those passed
- D / F / W
- 2.0%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 5621F
- 1622S
- 6823S
- 6224S
- 5425S
Grade distribution
- A+ 6 · 2.3%
- A 117 · 45.7%
- A- 69 · 27.0%
- B+ 27 · 10.5%
- B 18 · 7.0%
- B- 7 · 2.7%
- C+ 1 · 0.4%
- C 3 · 1.2%
- C- 2 · 0.8%
- D+ 1 · 0.4%
- D 2 · 0.8%
- F 2 · 0.8%
- I 1 · 0.4%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SRINIVASAN, RAMESH | 3.63 | 3.62 | 255 | 5 | 75% |
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
By term
- 21F 3.67 n=55
- 22S 3.01 n=16
- 23S 3.63 n=68
- 24S 3.62 n=62
- 25S 3.76 n=54