PPT-Brief lectures in Media History

Introduction Media history and technology Topics About history Historians and their motives Social histories and critiques of media About media technology Four revolutions in mass media . explore the history of smell and pay particular attention to the history of combining smell with other media with a view to noting and understanding mistakes made and learning from them present a prototype system inStink that uses smell as an ambien 7 8.1. Lectures. 8.2. Practicals. See appendix .2. Group ‘B’ Subjects 8.3 Agency visits As stated in practical paper.3. 8.4. Educational Tour Visits will be arrange 1 Bernard Williams, Descartes: the Project of Pure Enquiry(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978), p.9 2 Mill:The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. Th Introduction . Overview of history . (1 of 15) . This lecture is about. history … . What is history . Historical methods . Importance of history. Some of the great historians . Some of the branches of history . Overview. Elizabeth . Losh. http://. losh.ucsd.edu. Who was Rasputin?. Why is his name associated with seduction?. . Grigori. . Yefimovich. Rasputin. 1869-1916. . Theories of Seduction. How does seduction replace or supplant other explanations of human behavior? . Presented at the 4. th. Annual VCARA Conference. Digital Stewardship & Knowledge Dissemination in the 21st . Century. May 2013. SLIS Island – Second Life. By Sarah Fihe . Preserving History. Old. CS 445/656 Computer & New Media. Defining New Media. “New media” suggests something less settled, known, identified. Changing set of formal and technological experiments. Complex set of interactions between new technologies and established media forms. Frameworks for Discussion and Comparison. Lots of two-feature frameworks for characterizing media. Initial framework. Interactive media tend to change the relationship between the reader and the author. Conspiracy Planet. How . conspiracy theories . and . conspiracy scandals shape history. This course meets at . Steven . Acad. . 150. Time: . TuTh. 1:30PM – . 3:05PM. Requirements. Three ID tests. .. Target. . Vocabulary. accelerate. (v). . to. . increase. . the. . speed. of . sth. . The. . government. . accelerated. . the. . privatisation. . programme. .. acceleration. (n). access. Do . Your . Students . Look Like This?. Does Your . Powerpoint. Look Like This?. Teaching Tips and Tricks. Karen Jansen. Make it Engaging. Harvard. BBC. King’s College. Logos and Pathos. “The . best presentations are good . Why study history?. “History is Bunk.”—Henry Ford. Actually, he said “history is more or less bunk.”. But…Henry Ford is history.. Why study history?. The American idea was a break from the past.. Each time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: Where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? And what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 national bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment’s inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome. Each time history repeats itself, so it’s said, the price goes up. The twentieth century was a time of runaway growth in human population, consumption, and technology, placing a colossal load on all natural systems, especially earth, air, and water — the very elements of life. The most urgent questions of the twenty-first century are: Where will this growth lead? Can it be consolidated or sustained? And what kind of world is our present bequeathing to our future?In his #1 national bestseller A Short History of Progress Ronald Wright argues that our modern predicament is as old as civilization, a 10,000-year experiment we have participated in but seldom controlled. Only by understanding the patterns of triumph and disaster that humanity has repeated around the world since the Stone Age can we recognize the experiment’s inherent dangers, and, with luck and wisdom, shape its outcome.