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Expanded Course Description
This course reviews the historic role of communication in shaping societies and institutions in the United States. We will try to understand mass communication as it truly was, and not to imagine that it was merely a crude model of what it has become in our own time.
Our goal is to achieve an overall understanding of both the extraordinary reach and the unexpected limitations of media messages, technologies and power. These themes are addressed through a selective discussion of ideas, technologies, events, people, professional practices, economics and politics from the American Revolution until the present. Students write two papers, both of which are based on original research of historical documents.
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