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Wikiversity Project Description
This project houses materials for IDT 507: Information Technology, a course offered at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in the Information Design & Technology (IDT) master's program.
Course Description[edit | edit source]
Assesses the development and social impact of information and communication technologies. Focuses on emerging technologies of the 21st century and the convergence of traditional with new media. Examines the technical features and characteristics of information and communication technologies, and assesses the evidence for significant social impact associated with their diffusion.[1]
More specifically, the course will trace the social and cultural history of information technologies in five eras:
- Oral: speech, oral tradition , orality, talking drums,
- Writing: alphabet, writing, manuscripts,
- Printing: printing press,, print culture, postal culture,
- Electronics: telegraph, telephone, radio television,
- Digital media: computing, computer networks, Internet culture
Course Modality[edit | edit source]
Primary Textbook[edit | edit source]
Learning Activities[edit | edit source]
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- Contributing to Wikidata (Bibliographic and diffusion)
- Conducting Original Research
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Information Design & Technology (Graduate) - Course Descriptions | SUNY Polytechnic Institute". sunypoly.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
- ↑ Gleick, James (2011). The information: a history, a theory, a flood (1. ed ed.). New York, NY: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-375-42372-7.