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Week 1, Welcome

Media Technologies

An overview of media technologies, including early writing and the printing press, the rise of mass culture, and the digital revolution.

http://juanmonroy.com/mediatechnologies

Instructor

Juan Monroy
Email: juan.monroy@qc.cuny.edu
Office Hours: G Building, Rm 102-D, Friday, 12:30 – 1:30 PM

Textbooks

  1. Fang, Irving E. Alphabet to Internet: Media in Our Lives. New York: Routledge, 2015.
  2. Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Course Materials

  1. We will be using Google Apps and Google Classroom at QC
  2. We will not be using Blackboard.
  3. Use your QC Library card barcode or QC CAMS credentials to access the Reserve Readings.

Requirements

  1. Attendance and Participation: Be Present!
  2. Readings: Read before class.
  3. Assignments: Finish work on time.
  4. Exams: Study and do well.

Policies

  1. Professionalism will get you everywhere.
  2. Late Work will be penalized.
  3. “Incomplete” Grades are reserved only for the most extraordinary cases.
  4. Academic Dishonesty will ruin your life.
  5. Curb your usage of Computers, Tablets, and Mobile Phones
  6. Check Your QC Email account.
  7. Students with Disabilities should consult the Office of Special Services.

Evaluation

Each assignment and exam is worth 20% of your final grade.

  1. Writing and Print Revolutions, due October 12
  2. Midterm Exam, October 21
  3. The Cycle: Draft and Outline, due November 16
  4. The Cycle: Final Paper, due December 14
  5. Final Exam, due December 23, 6:15 PM

Schedule and Topics

  1. September 2: Welcome
  2. September 9: Writing
  3. September 16: Early Print
  4. September 30: Mass Print
  5. October 7 : Telegraph
  6. October 14: Photography
  7. October 21: Midterm Exam
  8. October 28: Telephone
  9. November 4: Motion Pictures
  10. November 11: Recorded Sound
  11. November 18: Radio
  12. November 25: Television
  13. December 2: Computers
  14. December 9: Internet
  15. December 23: Final Exam due

To-Do Today

  1. Buy the textbooks by Irving Fang and Tim Wu
  2. Carefully review the course website
  3. Activate your Google Apps at QC account.
  4. Join the class on Google Classroom.
  5. Email me at juan.monroy@qc.cuny.edu, with Media Studies 100 in the subject line so I can add you to the class list.