IN 204 - Minds, Media, and Technological Change

Institution:

Emerson College

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Description:

Interrogates the roles communication media (from etchings on cave walls to full immersion virtual realities) play in formation of personal identity, self-consciousness, and consciousness of individuals as social actors. Cognitive skills and habits necessary for gaining fluency or "literacy"in print, radio, television, computers, Internet, cell phones, and personal and mass communication technologies will be considered. Conceptions of self, society, aesthetics, morality, and "culture" areestablished and maintained vis-à-vis different modes of communication. Critical understanding of ways communication technologies have altered and continue to change conceptions.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.emerson.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 824-8500

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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