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Apr 23, 2024
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Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CST 274 - History of Communication Technologies and Politics in America
The course examines the history of communication technologies and how they have shaped and been shaped by politics throughout American history. This fascinating story begins in pre-revolutionary America, when newspapers helped unite the colonies as a nation, and moves through the telegraph, telephone, motion pictures, radio, broadcasting, network and cable television, personal computers, the Internet, mobile phones, and social media. The course concludes by leveraging our understanding of communication history to address some of constitutive choices that we now face as a nation, including: foreign interference in elections, net neutrality, and data privacy.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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