Description
377: Cultural Impact of Media Technology
Goal: To provide students with an understanding of the role changes in media technology have had over the course of human history in shaping cultural, social, political, and economic forces.
Content: Readings, discussion and analysis of the impact of orality, literacy, electronic and digital media on human conceptions of knowledge, politics, economics, power, relationships, selfhood, cognition, and identity.
Taught: Alternate years.
Credit: 3 hours