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Photograph of Laine Nooney being led away from a protest by police.

Laine Nooney

Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

Media, Culture, and Communication

laine.nooney@nyu.edu
Website

For the most up-to-date information on Laine Nooney's research, teaching, and public scholarship, see their website: www.lainenooney.com.

Photograph courtesy Climate Defenders at a faith-led eco-activist direct action against CitiBank, one of the world's the largest funders of fossil fuels.

Programs

Media, Culture, and Communication

Our media studies programs train agile researchers of a shifting media landscape. Learn to analyze media and technology in its cultural, social, and global contexts.

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Courses

History of Computing: How the Computer Became Personal

This course focuses on technological developments and cultural contexts relevant to understanding the development of digital computing technology. The course familiarizes students with the social forces and technocultural innovations that shaped the personal computing industry, and uses primary documents, academic history and critical theory to contextualize and problematize popular frameworks of technological progress and challenge narratives of computing's inevitability.
Course #
MCC-UE 1171
Credits
4
Department
Media, Culture, and Communication