Jul 03, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

MDIA 4176 - Technology, Communication, and Culture


Examines ways in which communication technologies shape and structure a culture and also ways in which a culture, in turn, uses those technologies to stabilize itself and to discover meaning.

Requisites: Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • To apply this understanding to modern communication systems.
  • To understand major theoretical positions on culture and technology.
  • To understand reciprocal relationships between technology and culture.


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