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MIT CMS.801 Media in Transition, Fall 2004
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This course centers on historical eras in which the form and function of media technologies were radically transformed. It includes consideration of the "Gutenberg Revolution," the rise of modern mass media, and the "digital revolution," among other case studies of media transformation and cultural change. Readings cover cultural and social history and historiographic methods.
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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Media;mass media;history;Gutenberg;cultural change;cultural history;social history;historiographic method;books;medieval history;codex book;writing;printing;printing press;stage;theater;renaissance;romanticism;modernity;inventions;photography;nineteenth century;image;telegraph;electrification;communication;Morse;Daguerreotype;Fox Talbot;phonograph;sound recording;radio;broadcasting;film;video;cinema;publishing
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