Week 12: Smartphones

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Week 11: Twitter

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Week 10: Social Media and Many to Many

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Week 9: The Early Internet

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Week 8: Early Computers

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Week 7: Radio and Television

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Week 6: Wired Communication

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Week 5: Print

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Week 4: Papyrus, Paper, Parchment

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Week 3: Early Media

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Week 2: Oral Culture

Week One: What Are Media?

Media schedule (Jen McGee: mcgeejen@gmail.com)

9/22: Welcome to class! What is a medium? Effects of media. Overview of the class.
9/29: Oral Culture: Communication before media
10/6: The first media: Stone, clay, and wax
10/13: Media speed up: Writing on papyrus, parchment, and paper
10/20: The Printing Press: Communicating to the masses
10/27: Wired communication: Telegraphs and telephones
11/3: NO CLASS
11/10: Broadcasting: Radio and Television
11/17: Midterm Test and The Digital Leap: The birth of the Internet
11/24: NO CLASS (I'll be in the US!)
12/1: Early Internet: Email and Databases
12/8: Social Media: Facebook changes everything
12/15: Social Media: Twitter and microblogging
12/22: Smartphones: Portable Internet
12/29: NO CLASS
1/5: The Global Village: Memes and Viruses
1/12: Coming of Age Day: NO CLASS
1/19: Looking to the Future
1/26: Final Test

--Every week (including this one) we will have a very small (two questions!) quiz! Your grades will be these quizzes, the midterm test, and the final test at the end.

14 2-point quizzes=28 points
Midterm test=14 points
Final test=14 points
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Total=56 points

--The web page for this class is at mediajen.blogspot.com. You'll find presentations and important links there, so check it often!