MDSB20H3: Media, Science and Technology Studies

This course offers an introduction to the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) as it contributes to the field of media studies. We will explore STS approaches to media technologies, the materiality of communication networks, media ecologies, boundary objects and more. This will ask students to consider the relationship between things like underground cables and colonialism, resource extraction (minerals for media technologies) and economic exploitation, plants and border violences, Artificial Intelligence and policing.

[Enrolment in the Major program in Media and Communication Studies and [MDSA10H3 or (MDSA01H3)] and MDSA11H3 or [Enrolment in the Minor Program in Media Studies and MDSA11H3 and [MDSA13H3 or (MDSA02H3)] ]
(MDSB10H3)
History, Philosophy and Cultural Studies