Global Media History

Catalog description

This course explores the emergence and development of different communication media in a broad social and cultural context. From the ancient Asian typewriters to modern Social Networking Service (SNS), media operate in relation to particular social, economic, and technological conditions. This course will aid students in their efforts to make sense of how communications processes have mediated and shaped our interactions with each other as well as our understanding of the world. It does so by examining specific instances of media communications in a number of key cases observed in world history and by showing how technological innovation in media communications has led to new social, cultural, and political forms. 001418