Course description

From hieroglyphs to HTML, ancient poetry to audiotape, and Plato’s cave to virtual reality, “Thinking Media” offers a multidisciplinary introduction to the most influential media formats of the last three millennia. Featuring an array of guests from across Cornell, including faculty from Communication, Comparative Literature, English, German Studies, Information Science, Music, and Performing & Media Arts, the course will present diverse perspectives on how to think with, against, and about media in relation to the public sphere and private life, archaeology and science fiction, ethics and aesthetics, identity and difference, labor and play, knowledge and power, expression and surveillance, and the generation and analysis of data.

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Student experiences

"I found confidence in my ability to handle a college-level workload and gained better critical thinking skills."
Eleni Alexandra Pinzon
"I learned so much both in and out of the classroom and gained new perspectives surrounding my everyday life."
Aya Takegami