VCC427H5 • Participatory Media

In order to explore the complex social and political issues surrounding the discourse of democratic participation in today's "new media" culture, this course provides a historical and theoretical survey of "old" media technologies that embrace the aesthetics of participation, running from popular theatre forms (including vaudeville and Chautauqua) to call-in radio shows, avant-garde and novelty films, activist video art, and the audience-based talk and game shows of fifties television that most directly prefigure the participatory genres of contemporary media programming.

(VCC101H5 or VCC201H5) and at least 1.0 credit in VCC
Humanities
24P/24S
In Class
Visual Culture and Communication