Course10910215637 lectures
Text, Textuality and Digital Media
Prof. Arjun Ghosh · IIT Delhi
About
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
Prerequisites: 10+2
Lectures
Week 1
- Introduction to the Course
- Marshall McLuhan : The Medium is the Message
- Marshall McLuhan : The Gutenberg Galaxy (Part -1)
- Marshall McLuhan : The Gutenberg Galaxy (Part -2)
Week 2
- Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy (Part - 1)
- Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy (Part - 2)
- Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy (Part - 3)
Week 3
Week 4
- Manuscript Culture: India
- Feudalism to Capitalism
- Febre and Martin: ‘The Discovery of Printing’ & ‘The Chinese Precedent’
Week 5
Week 6
- Robert Darnton: ‘What is the History of Books?’
- Benedict Anderson: ‘The Origins of National Consciousness’
Week 7
- Manuscript Culture: India
- Feudalism to Capitalism
- Febre and Martin: ‘The Discovery of Printing’ & ‘The Chinese Precedent’
Week 8
Week 9
- Robert Darnton: ‘What is the History of Books?’
- Benedict Anderson: ‘The Origins of National Consciousness’
Week 10
Week 11
- Publishing in Hindi and Urdu
- Walter Benjamin: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
- Raymond Williams: 'Television'
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Delhi
- Department
- Humanities and Social Sciences
- Teacher
- Prof. Arjun Ghosh
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Society and politics
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
- Who can watch
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