a media studies course
LOCATION: SFSU Downtown Center, 425 Market
instructor: Mark Beaulieu
Understanding Media: The Individual and Society
Re-opening Marshall McLuhan's "Understanding Media"
(MIT Press 1995) as
a base to reconsider our media assumptions, the instructor shares
years
of research into the enigmatic life and newly re-explored ideas
of
Marshall McLuhan. After examining the principles of media, the
class
will examine multi-modal experiences and consider current models
of the
mind, emotion and the senses with special emphasis on synesthesia
theory. From this basis we will look at roots of today's modern
media of
computers and digital networks and review Nicholas Negroponte's
"Being
Digital" and the writings of George Gilder. To complete a
foundation for
future thinking, we will review modern media and their effects
and see
how modern architectural theories regard design for personal and
social
use. The instructor's course site at
http://www.digitallantern.net/beaulieuhome.htm/McLuhan/course explains that this
study observes and studies all media, then examines closely
digital
interactive and networked media finally considering emerging
individual
and social models.
mail comments to: markbeau@mac.com
last edited 04/16/01