The emergence of digital means of communication and representation is transforming the way human beings assimilate and engage with knowledge. To understand this process this course will study the evolution of language, narratives and representation through the history of technologies of communication – oral, written, print and the digital. It will explore concepts of copyright, censorship, authorship, nation formation. Students would engage in debates surrounding blogging, facebook, google, twitter, instagram, video games, wikipedia and other forms of electronic texts. Students who have already completed a Literature course are likely to benefit from the experience
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Those interested in studying the history of the book and the onset of digital media
PREREQUISTES
10+2
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Prof. Arjun works on the politics of performance and mobilisation, copyright and intellectual property, new media and the internet. He was formerly a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and currently teaches at IIT Delhi. He is the author of A History of the Jana Natya Manch: Plays For the People (Sage, 2012) and Freedom from Profit: Eschewing Copyright in Resistance Art (IIAS, 2014) and an annotated translation of Nabanna (Rupa, 2018)
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Course Details
Week 1: Understanding Media
Week 2: Orality and Literacy
Week 3: Oral an Manuscript Cultures
Week 4: Manuscript to Print
Week 5: The Consequences of Print
Week 6: Print and Nationalism
Week 7: Colonialism and Print in India
Week 8: Photography, Flims and Television
Week 9: Electronic Literature
Week 10: Copyright
Week 11: Digital Media and the Mind
Week 12: Social Media and the Future
Books and References
Marshall McLuhan. “The Medium is the Message” (from Understanding Media)
Marshall McLuhan. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto. University of Toronto Press, 2011. pages 11-18, 31-32, 137-41
Walter J. Ong. ‘The modern discovery of primary oral cultures’ in Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London and New York, Routledge, 1982. 16-30.
Walter Ong. “Writing is a Technology” Christopher De Hamel. ‘Illuminators, Binders and Booksellers’ in Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2013. 45-70.
Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin. ‘The ‘Discovery’ of Printing’ and ‘The Chinese Precedent’ in The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. Calcutta, Seagull Books, 2006. 50-58 and 75-82.
Robert Darnton. ‘What is the history of books?’ Daedalus 111(3): 65-83.
Anderson, Benedict. ‘The Origins of National Consciousness’ in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso, 1991. 37-46.
Raymond Williams. ‘The technology and the society’ in Television: Technology and Cultural Form. New York, Schocken Books, 1975. 9-31.
David J. Bolter. “Seeing and Writing” in The New Media Reader “Electronic Literature: What is it?”.
Robert Coover. “The End of Books” in The New Media Reader
Richard Stallman. “The GNU Manifesto” in The New Media Reader
Lawrence Lessig. ‘Chapter Twelve: Harms’. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin Press 2004. 183-212.
Arjun Ghosh. “Censorship through Copyright: From print to digital media” in Social Scientist vol. 41. nos. 1-2 January-February 2013
Nicholas Carr. ‘The Juggler’s Brain’ in The Shallows: How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember. London, Atlantic Books, 2010. 115-120; 126-129.
Scott Galloway. “Google: Our Modern Day God” in Four
Zeynep Tufekci. Twitter and Tear Gas
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