Course Details
Country:
Japan
Institution:
Waseda University
Course Title:
Media History 01
Course Number:
MDAX221L
Course Description:
With the rapid development of the internet from the turn of the twenty-first century, today we are living through a period of major change in media systems. This course will focus not only on the internet revolution itself but also on three earlier periods of media transition in the modern era following the industrial revolution of the late eighteenth century: the periodical revolution of the mid-nineteenth century; the phonograph and cinema revolution from the turn of the twentieth century; and the broadcasting revolution of the mid-twentieth century. We will consider not only the technological developments driving such changes but also the sociological causes underlying them. Two very different but equally seminal modern thinkers about media history, Marshall McLuhan and Jurgen Habermas, will be referred to throughout to help create an intellectual framework for the course in general. In addition, while studying each of the four periods of transition modern media.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
COMM 202
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