GERST 2703 - Thinking Media

(crosslisted) COML 2703, ENGL 2703, MUSIC 2703, PMA 2703, SHUM 2703
(ALC-AS, CA-AS)

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Taught in English.

E. Born.

From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato’s cave to virtual reality, “Thinking Media” offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three millennia. Featuring an array of guests from across Cornell, including faculty from Communication, Comparative Literature, German Studies, Information Science, Literatures in English, Music, and Performing & Media Arts, the course will present diverse perspectives on how to think with, against, and about media in relation to the public sphere and private life, archaeology and science fiction, ethics and aesthetics, identity and difference, labor and play, knowledge and power, expression and surveillance, and the generation and analysis of data.