<p>Seminar, two hours; discussion, 90 minutes. Introduction to traditional and current thinking about materialities of texts, books, documents, and digital and print artifacts. Draws on conventional bibliography to introduce students to fundamentals of descriptive and analytic approaches, but also engages with theoretical positions derived from new theories in media archaeology, digital humanities, and legacy of structuralist, semiotic, and visual studies approaches. Identification and understanding of methods by which artifacts have been produced and thinking about implications of these for resituating artifacts within cultural, economic, and technological systems of value production. Letter grading.</p>

Information Studies

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.

General Catalog

Approaches to Materialities of Texts and Media

INFSTD236

4 units