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MEDIA STUDIES (Macrina and Lucia) 1) How and when did it emerge?

ROOTS Chicago school 1900s

John Dewey, Charles Cooley, George Mead (background in Psychology)

Mead argued that ppl have wildly different paradigms so in utopia we need a ‘new media’(a form of communication that we will develop) that will allow us to understand each other.

Concerned with politics + structure of society- informed electorate thru digital comms

2) How is it studied?

3) How has it changed?

Roots in Chicago school, but became formalised in 1919 in NY University

Has gone through periods of high and low regard (respected as a legit academics vs scorned as ‘quasi-academic’ and ‘soft’