HNRS150B2

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This course examines communication technologies and the history of electronic communication, and their relationship to the social sphere. We will examine the social impact of these technologies, especially how they disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. At the same time, we will focus on the persistent cultural beliefs that have been linked with communications technologies. Throughout the semester we will be comparing and contrasting our contemporary experience of ubiquitous communication and computing with how electronic presence has been experienced and imagined in the past.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

GE - T1-INDV (Tier 1 Individuals & Societies), GEED - BC (Gen Ed: Building Connections), HNRS - HCRS (Honors Course)

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