2009 Course Handbook
MAS229: Media Forms: From Alphabet to Internet
This unit explores the relationships between media, technologies, and social and cultural change. The unit aims to develop both a historical perspective on the contemporary media environment and an understanding of the media as technologies. It examines the introduction, development and uses of a number of key communications technologies (including the printing press, the telegraph, broadcasting and the Net). It also considers some of the most important ways in which the relationships between media technologies and social or cultural change have been understood.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
| When Offered: | TBD - To be determined |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Graham Meikle |
| Prerequisites: | 12cp |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | MAS214 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |