CMS.801 Media in Transition, Fall 2004
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Author(s)
Ravel, Jeffrey S.
Alternative Title
Media in Transition
Date Issued
December 2004
Abstract
This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change. Readings cover cultural and social history and historiographic methods.
Subjects
Media
mass media
history
Gutenberg
cultural change
cultural history
social history
historiographic method
books
medieval history
codex book
writing
printing
printing press
stage
theater
renaissance
romanticism
modernity
inventions
photography
nineteenth century
image
telegraph
electrification
communication
Morse
Daguerreotype
Fox Talbot
phonograph
sound recording
radio
broadcasting
film
video
cinema
publishing
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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