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Useful Links
Benjamin
Best
translation of “The Work of Art” (based
on the new Harvard Press collected writings)
Major
critics writing on on Benjamin
Walter
Benjamin Research Syndicate
Radio
Thomas H. White's authoritative United
States Early Radio History, with overview and links
to many key documents and articles about early radio.
Halper's
History of Radio, with brief clips of the 1938
Munich crisis and Roosevelts "fireside chats"
Orson
Welles, The Mercury Theater of the Air: The War of the Worlds
(October 30, 1938) [listen
to online];
Television
Daniel Chandler's critique of "The
Transmission Model of Communication"
Daniel
Chandler's critique of "Encoding/ Decoding"
The
Simpsons Official Website
Targeting/
shooting from a AC 130 Gunship in Afghanistan: 12/6/03
Internet
Nicholas Negorponte, "Wearable
Computing," WIRED MAGAZINE, Dec.
12, 1995
J.P Barlow, "A
Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace"
Professor Warner review pages:
Outline
of "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception"
Issues
for discussion of Meet John Doe
What
McLuhan got right and what he got wrong
Frameworks
for studying Media Culture
LCI course: This course
meets the requirement for English majors specializing in the
Literature and the Culture of Information (LCI).
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