School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies
17:610:593 The History of Books, Documents and Records in Print and Electronic Environment
Marija Dalbello
In this course we will examine the production and circulation of knowledge in light of changing technologies, institutions and textual forms. An overview and comparison of textual transmission in oral, manuscript, print and electronic communication environments will include regulatory frameworks and the history of "intellectual property" concepts from attribution and authorship to participatory ownership of creation. We will examine books, documents and record manifestations, and current scholarship relevant for understanding them comparatively, from book history to social construction of technology, and from narrative theory to social informatics. The focus on the book trades, web spheres, play spheres and socio-technical systems such as digital libraries will prompt students to question the nature of texts (print, non-print, and digital), their reception, associated literacy practices, communities and institutional contexts. The course is offered in conjunction with the activities of the Center for Cultural Analysis.
Organization of the Course
- Technology and Chronology
- Genre, Discourse, Representations, Structured Spaces
- Use, Appropriation
- Contexts of Distribution, Regulatory Frameworks
More at http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/%7Edalbello/courses/bhist/bhist2005home.html
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