Course Description

Media, Information and Technoculture 336F/G Developments in Media and Information Technologies

Technologies have been integral to transformations in politics, economics, society and culture. As was crucial to the communications theory developed by Canadian Harold Innis, this course critically examines the ways in which technologies have shaped communications and the uses information in societies/cultures at different times and in different locations.

Prerequisite: Registration in the third or fourth year of an MIT program, or permission of the Faculty.

3 hours, half course.

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