Mon, 1/14
Location:
South Hall 2509: Transcriptions Studio
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Print and the Enlightenment: From Oral Communication to Alphabetic Writing to Print
The readings in this class offer two very different ways to study the relationship between media, in this case print media, and cultural change. What results is less a "debate" about whether or how "media" determines "culture" than the articulation of two very different discursive systems for studying media. For McLuhan, "media" is the global term, which, by working as environments; they "work us over completely."[The Medium is the Massage, 26] |
