ENG 3803 Spring 2024 - Orchard - 0003

Spring
2024
ENG 3803
History of Text Technologies: Social Media Tech Across Time
Amory Orchard

This course is an introduction to the history of the changing technologies that humans have used to record and transmit their experiences across time and space. It surveys the variety of forms this effort has taken from tattoos to TikTok and from papyrus scrolls to iPads. Students investigate how culturally diverse technologies have shaped the way we produce, transmit, and receive texts.