MEDIA 745

Special Topic: Communication Excess and Avoidance

Please note: this is archived course information from 2019 for MEDIA 745.

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 2019

Semester 1

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Ethan Plaut

Points

MEDIA 745: 30 points