MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

This course introduces the student to the history, philosophy, epistemology and analysis of media and mass communication. The class covers social, cultural, and political changes triggered by new media and communication technologies and presents current theory and research models. Students will specifically focus on the implications of the phonetic alphabet, the invention of the printing press, television, and cyberspace and will participate in a mixture of lectures, readings, discussions, experiments and projects.

• CLASS INFORMATION
  
• CLASS SCHEDULE
  • CLASS INFORMATION
    
  • CLASS SCHEDULE
    • Week 1 - Introduction
    • Week 2 - History of Communication Media
    • Week 3 - History and Definitions
      Plato/ Vannemar Bush/ Claude Elwood Shannon
    • Week 4 - Mass Media/ Marshall McLuhan
    • Week 5 - Mass and New Media I
      Marshall McLuhan, ArpaNet and WWW
    • Week 6 - Mass and New Media II
      Jürgen Habermas
    • Week 7 - Mass and New Media III
      Neil Postman and Jean Baudrillard
    • Week 8 - Mass and New Media IV
      Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson
    • Week 9 - Social Aspects of Media and Communications I
      Propaganda and Censorship
    • Week 10 - Social Aspects of Media and Communications II
      Bias, Ownership, and Monopoly
    • Week 11 - Social Aspects of Media and Communications III
      Social Implications
    • Week 12 - Social Aspects of Media and Communications IV
      Social Aspects of Media and Communications
    • Week 13 - Body/Gender and Reality/Virtuality
    • Week 14 - Final Exam
    • Week 15 - Conclusion and Evaluation
  • MATERIAL
    
  • REQUIREMENTS
  
  
  
  
  

  WEEK 4 - Mass Media/ Marshall McLuhan

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  Reading
  McLuhan, Marshall. Playboy Interview. (1969)

  Book
  McLuhan, Marshall. The Medium is the Message. (Introduction) (1964)

  
  

  WEEK 5 - Mass Media I

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  Mass and New Media/ Marshall McLuhan, ArpaNet and WWW

  Book
  McLuhan, Marshall. The Medium is the Message. (Continued) (1964)

  Reading
  WWW. Berners-Lee, Tim. Information Management: A Proposal. (1989)

  Resources
  Arpanet Collection. Internet Archive.
  W3C. HTTP Protocol 1.0.

  
  
  

  WEEK 6 - Mass Media II

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  Reading
  Public Sphere. Habermas, Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. (1991)