2025 Fall

MEDIAST 111B 001 - LEC 001

Text and Data Media History

Matthew Berry

Aug 27, 2025 - Dec 12, 2025

Mo, We

10:00 am - 11:59 am

Physics Building 4

Class #:24620

Units: 4

Instruction Mode: In-Person Instruction

Offered through Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies

Current Enrollment

Total Open Seats: 190

Enrolled: 0

Waitlisted: 0

Capacity: 190

Waitlist Max: 30

Open Reserved Seats:

15 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission

175 reserved for Media Studies Majors

Hours & Workload

4 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 8 hours of outside work hours per week.

Other classes by Matthew Berry

MEDIAST 190 002 002LEC

This course covers the modern global history of textual and digital media forms, with a focus on interactions between emerging media technologies and emerging modern power structures. We will examine how and why historical agents responded to, made use of, and tried to regulate new information technologies such as the printing press, documents and forms, newspapers, the postal service, the telegraph and teletype, filing and punch-card systems, electro-mechanical and electronic computers, networked databases, and the internet. Lectures will consider the impact of specific media technologies on the historical development of state administrations, colonial empires, ideological movements, and modern global business.

Class Notes

- During Phase I, most seats will be saved for declared Media Studies students only. Non-declared students may place themselves on the waitlist.
- Remaining reserved seats will be released during Phase 2 of enrollment.
- Enrollment Permission seats are saved for emergencies and will be released much closer to the start of class instruction.
- Freshmen are not permitted to enroll in this course.

For more information on the enrollment process for this course, please visit https://mediastudies.ugis.berkeley.edu/course-enrollment-information/ show less