Assignments for Week 4

Listening:

  • Listen and make notes to prep for the listening quiz (LQ2) (for Thursday).

Reading:

  • Complete the readings, making notes in anticipation of a short reading quiz/in-class written exercise.

Writing — due on Tuesday!:

1. Bibliography is due!

2. Expand the following McLuhan quote with at least one additional pairing, and then either expand or comment upon the last two sentences in a 21st-century-perspective-expanding way (however you interpret that!):

“The telephone: speech without walls.

The phonograph: music hall without walls.

The photograph: museum without walls.

The electric light: space without walls.

The movie, radio, and TV: classroom without walls.

Man the food-gatherer reappears incongruously as information-gatherer. In this role, electronic man is no less a nomad than his paleolithic ancestors.”

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