Knowledge Worlds: Media, Materiality, and the Making of the Modern University

by Reinhold Martin

Book Overview

What do the technical practices, procedures, and systems that have shaped institutions of higher learning in the United States, from the Ivy League and women's colleges to historically black colleges and land-grant universities, teach us about the production and distribution of knowledge? Addressing media theory, architectural history, and the history of academia, Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex comprising...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231189834
• ISBN13: 9780231189835
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"