Welcome
Welcome to the course wiki for "Media Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (CC300CX/HIST492BX).
- Please take a moment to read about how we will use this site.
- Further information about the wiki is available here.
You can think of this website as an experiment in collaborative authorship -- a writing project that complements the research paper each of you will produce by the end of the semester.
Our work on this page is an occasion for reflecting on the historical relationship between media and messages. What is the quality of the communication that takes place on this site? How reliable is the information we produce here? What type of peer review does the web provide? How does this malleable medium compare with the fixity of print?
Although there are a few mandatory uses of this site, you are otherwise free to use the space in whatever ways best contribute to your learning in the class.
Recent articles on new media:
- People of the Screen
- Op-Ed Contributor - How to Publish Without Perishing - NYTimes.com
- Blog gridlock
- "Aggregators of aggregators of aggregators"
- Teenagers' Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
- Menocchio Questions - The Cheese and the Worms
- Newspapers
- Topic ideas in Profiles
- Several new feeds?
- Banned books
- List of Catholic churches that celebrate Mass in Latin
- Reformation Flugschriften (i.e., pamphlets)
- Chinese printing
- Johannes Gutenberg - enough said.
- Take a look at this excellent video on the invention of the printing press.
Links
- Course Help Page (Christopher Center)
- Special thanks to Professor Becky Byrum for putting together this excellent list of resources.
- Discussion Questions
- Profiles
- Calendar
- Upcoming Events
- Bibliographies
- Delicious tag clouds and feeds.
- Instructor's Information
- Good starting point for online resources.
For your amusement (and for evidence of how much the web has changed in the past ten years), take a look at this "archival" copy of the Valparaiso University Website in 1997 (courtesy of the Wayback Machine).
Contact the instructor:
- Feel free to email Professor Lundin if you have any questions.