PMA 6471

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PMA 6471
Introduction to Media Theory

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

This course will consider media as the integration of technological hardware and sets of cultural practices. We will work to recognize how "old" media help us historicize our present moment, and how "new" media continue to reorganize our understanding of apparatuses including cinema, gramophones, radio, photography, smart phones, and the printed book. Recognizing media theory as an independent field of study and a contributor to major developments in critical theory, we will discuss the importance of media archaeology, disability studies, haptic, tactical and bio media, network theory, sound studies, information theory, and digital and computational humanities. Authors might include Barthes, Benjamin, Chun, Doane, Galloway, Gitelman, Hansen, Hayles, Kirschenbaum, Kittler, A. Liu, L. Liu, McLuhan, M. Mills, Moretti, Nakamura, Price, Sterne, Thacker, Underwood and Williams.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: 15 students.  

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 6071

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17893 PMA 6471   SEM 101

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