This course focuses on technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology. The course familiarizes students with the social forces and technocultural innovations that shaped the personal computing industry, and uses primary documents, academic history and critical theory to contextualize and problematize popular frameworks of technological progress and challenge narratives of computing’s inevitability.
Media, Culture & Communication (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
Sections (Spring 2021)
MCC-UE 1171-000 (24908)01/28/2021 – 05/10/2021 Tue3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Brain, Tega · Nooney, Laine