GSOC 5989 -

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The New School

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Media and American Modernity [F] Spring 2009. Three credits. Jaeho Kang This course serves to continue and further develop courses such as Foundations of Media Theory and Media and Social Theory. Students learn the broader applications of media theory into various, yet distinct, dimensions of American society with a particular focus on culture and politics. It also helps students elaborate theoretical topics for master's theses and prepare for an advanced seminar such as Media and Critical Theory. The course explores the impact of various forms of media (newspapers, radio, TV, the Internet) on the transformation of American modernity via critical perspectives of philosophers, anthropologists, literary critics, and media theorists. The course will provide students an introduction to the key contributions of a number of writers to the understanding of the complex interplay between a particular medium and distinct forms of American experience. During the course, we will reexamine some of the issues in social theories (such as hyperreality, network society, mediated public space, urban spectacle, etc) as applied to American media, including, newspapers and the origin of American democracy; radio and propaganda; televised sports events and social identity; the Internet and mediated politics; and online games and everyday life.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.newschool.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 229-5600

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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