MSCR 2455 — Disinformation and Other Media Disorders
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath SI
Examines the long history of new media that have been said to threaten existing social orders—from 18th-century pamphlets to Nazi propaganda films and astrology columns to generative AI. Illuminates the central role that media genres, technologies, practices, and institutions have played in creating the modern category of “society” itself. Explores the relationship between media and private life, markets, and the state using a diverse set of case studies. Canonical and contemporary theories introduce key concepts ranging from stereotypes, ideology, and publicity to moral panic, agnotology, and disinformation.