COMM 2410U – Social History of Communication and Media Technologies

This course focuses on the social history of communication as related to new developments in media technologies. The course is a foundational overview of developments in human communication with attention to the social and cultural contexts in which new media technologies emerged over time. Students learn about orality, literacy, the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, the radio, the motion picture, the TV, satellites, cybernetics, personal computers, the Internet, A.I., smartphones and the social media and augmented reality of today.