Special Topics Research Seminar (525-0-1)

Topic

History & Theories of Information

Instructors

Aaron Shaw

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 2378: Thurs 10:00AM - 11:50AM

Overview of class

We live in an information age, with computers of unprecedented power in our pockets. This course seeks to understand how information shapes our lives today, and how it has in the past. It does so via an interdisciplinary inquiry into four technological infrastructures of information and communication—print, wires, airwaves, and bits. This graduate seminar will survey influential works theorizing social dimensions of these technological infrastructures.

Associated Classes

DIS - Tech Institute Lecture Room 4: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM