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Understanding Media StudiesFall 2014

Shannon Mattern

Carmel Pryor | Georgia Gallavin | Natalie Galivanes

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Why are we here?

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create a collaborative, explicitlyintradisciplinary space within the department

to explore the often competing commitmentsof our discipline and to articulate the stakes(individual, fieldwide, institutional, cultural) ofthe various approaches to reforming the field

provide students with opportunities to locatethemselves and their professional

commitments in relationship to the field

Virginia Crisco, Chris W. Gallagher, Deborah Minter, Katie Hupp Stahlnecker & JohnTalbird, Graduate Education As Education: The Pedagogical Arts of InstitutionalCritique Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture

3:3 (2003): 359-376.

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familiarize [students] with the rules, conventions,folkways, and habits of mind that inform theprofession and the discipline

as sites for institutional critique, not as idealizedfuture spaces wherein fully realized and

credentialized professionals do their work

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Digital Etiquette

Laptops, iPads, smartphones, and other communicationdevicescan serve as important learning tools. Therefore, we

do not want to preclude their use in class. All we ask is thatyou use this technology courteouslyand appropriately, to help youengagewith the class, not to check out.*

*Do I really need to say this? Please dont wear headphones during class.

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Mapping the Field

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11Saul Steinberg, View of the World from 9th Avenue,1976

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Mark Lombardi, George W. Bush, Harken Energy, and Jackson Stevens, ca. 1979-90, 1999

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Guy Debord,Naked City, 1957;Constant Nieuwenhuys, Symbolische voorstelling van New Babylon, 1969

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15Diderots Systme figur des connaissanceshumaines,Encyclopdie, 1751

LiberalEducation

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SocialSciences

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John Durham PeterssList of Media Studies

Forefathers/mothers:

John Dewey, Walter Lippmann, George HerbertMead, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Burke, Margaret

Mead, Robert Park, Harold Lasswell, Floyd Allport,Robert Lynd, Edward Bernays, Robert Merton,Lazarsfeld, I.A. Richards, F.R. and Q.D. Leavis,Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Arnheim,

Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer,Walter Benjamin, Leo Lowenthal, Antonio Gramsci

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Humanities

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Design

Education

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disciplines are defined not by cores of knowledge (i.e.,epistemologies) but by views of Being(i.e., ontologies)(Shepherd 83)

it is precisely the nature and purpose of disciplines and

their disciples to forward a unique view of Being among all the

alternatives and say, There is something primary, oressential, about this particular view. Disciplines depend on

disciples acting as advocates for the ontology they forward,making implicit and explicit arguments that their view

matters.

(Shepherd 84)

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Via Julia Lupton: http://bit.ly/ifguWJ

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John Culkin:

Media studies

represents the arts

and humanities in anew key.

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