HISTSCI 187: History of Information
Semester:
Spring
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Year offered:
2019
Th 3pm-5:45pm Location: TBA
Does information have a history? If the control and manipulation of data has now become central to politics, economics, and daily life, how did we get to this point? What came before this age of information, bits, and big data? This seminar course will examine changing meanings of information from diverse perspectives including global politics, technology, gender, and materiality over the last several centuries. The course will include several site visits, from a printing workshop to a bioinformatics lab.