In response to an influx of refugees from Syria, the International corporation of Ikea has pooled resources, research and survey work with the UN’s to design, produce and donate sturdy camp homes to the newly-homeless refugees. This article includes a blueprint of…
The Midterm is the Message

Here are some of the videos we have shown in class and will be relevant study aids for the midterm. McLuhan on “media is the message” Glen Beck on the CPI Jon Oliver on Net Neutrality Arthur Jensen on global…
Lecture for 14 August/ notes on “Network”
Tomorrow’s lecture will serve as a transition of sorts to discussions of how media and communications technologies affect the world in which we live. The reading will be the second half of Domic Boyer’s Understanding Media. While reading, watch out…