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CCTP-505 Introduction to Communication, Culture and Technology
Fall only
This course introduces students to some of the main approaches and issues that animate the Communication, Culture & Technology program. Students will explore interdisciplinary approaches to solving intellectual problems in communications, cultural, media, and technology studies. Students will also consider issues in the movement ofrom theoretical work to intellectual and interpretive practice. What does an interdisciplinary practice of communication, culture and technology studies look like? How do contemporary media environments create conditions for or against social change? How are distributed production and social media technologies changing how we work, relate, and interact with one another? How have communication practices influenced--and been influenced by--these new forms of interaction and space? What are the issues of power and agency which cut across these social, cultural, and individual media practices?
After an opening section suggesting frameworks for interdisciplinary practice, the course is organized into macro and micro case studies under the following overarching themes:
* Media Industries, Media Use and Political-Social Change
* Social Relationships, New Technologies, and Distributed Production
* Subcultures, Work and Media
These themes—and the individual case studies grouped beneath them—are not comprehensive. Rather, students will explore vital CCT problems using a consistent set of questions from radically divergent disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives. In this sense, the students will learn approaches to think through problems, rather than a set body of knowledge, theory, or method.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Fall '09:
Turner, J.; Coventry, M.
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