UT Dallas 2017 Undergraduate Catalog

ATCM2322 - Media History

ATCM 2322 Media History (3 semester credit hours) This course examines the history of emerging media by foregrounding the relationship between new media technologies and cultural, social, political, economic, and epistemological transformations. Possible topics include the shift from orality to writing, the social impacts of the printing press, the rise of broadcast media, and the development of the Internet. Prerequisite: ATCM 2321. (3-0) Y