Mar 29, 2024  
Catalogue 2021-2022 
    
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MEDS 260 - Media Theory

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring
1 unit(s)
This course aims to ramify our understanding of “mediality”—that is, the visible and invisible, audible and silent contexts in which physical messages stake their ghostly meanings. The claims of media theory extend beyond models of communication: media do not simply transport preexisting ideas, nor do they merely shape ideas in transit. Attending to the complex network of functions that make up media ecologies (modes of inscription, transmission, storage, circulation, and retrieval) demonstrates the role media play not only in the molding of ideas and opinions, but also in the constitution of subjectivities, social spheres, and non-human circuits of exchange (images, information, capital). Texts and topics vary from year to year, but readings are drawn from a broad spectrum of classical and contemporary sources. Eva Woods (a), Alex Kupfer (b).

Prerequisite(s): MEDS 160  or permission of the instructor.

Course Format: CLS



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