LIBS621

This course explores processes and implications of mediated information dissemination using texts, case studies, screenings, field trips, and experiential processes. Sessions include discussion of Sol Worth's theories and practice of ethnographic films, Raoul Vaneigem's ideas about mediated abstraction, and Shoshanna Zuboff's concerns about panoptic power and social organization. Students will have the opportunity to explore image-making potentials of video, computer, and telecommunication technologies. The underlying themes of this research share the humanistic, values-oriented approach of the Core program.