| Course Description |
This is an interdisciplinary module which is intended to be of interest to both students of the media and historians. It aims to give media students some historical depth to their study so that they fit their study of contemporary media into a wider historical framework and are therefore better able to understand the media today. It will also help them to understand media theory better since such theory is centrally concerned with the relationship between different media, both contemporary and historical. For history and sociology students, the history of the media is an area which is vital to the understanding of modern social and cultural history but which is not covered in most modules in these areas.
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