COMMS 702

Communication Excess and Avoidance

Description

Silences and absences make communication possible. Each medium, whether spoken or printed, projected or computed, has peculiar silences ranging from elegant to tragic, comic to painful, fleeting to eternal. Superabundant digital media raise acute questions about communicative excess and possible needs to disconnect. Such questions will be addressed alongside the cultural and technological history of communication excess and absence.

Availability 2025

Not taught in 2025

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

COMMS 702: 30 points