Students studying visual and media communication will investigate the media’s ecological influences on central European community and culture. Analyses and discussions will build on Marshall McLuhan’s media theory in Understanding Media and the work of Yuri Rozhdestvensky and Jussi Parikka. Students will develop a better understanding of the differing North American (NA), central European (CE), and Russian (R) evaluations of the respective media ecologies. The class will discover how media, art, and technology are used to create relationships between their intended and diverse media systemic structures, content, and audiences. At the conclusion of the course, students will present the global village as it applies to central European countries and their nationals, comparing those outcomes to their own community’s use of media, new and old.
by Dr. Patricia Foley, Community College of Beaver County