NPTEL : NOC:Text, Texuality and Digital Media (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Arjun Ghosh


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the course

Lecture 2 - Marshall McLuhan : The Medium is the Message

Lecture 3 - Marshall McLuhan : The Gutenberg Galaxy - Part 1

Lecture 4 - Marshall McLuhan : The Gutenberg Galaxy - Part 2

Lecture 5 - Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy - Part 1

Lecture 6 - Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy - Part 2

Lecture 7 - Walter Ong: Orality and Literacy - Part 3

Lecture 8 - Dastangoi : History - Part 1

Lecture 9 - Dastangoi : Chouboli - Part 2

Lecture 10 - Manuscript Culture: Europe

Lecture 11 - Manuscript Culture: India

Lecture 12 - Feudalism to Capitalism

Lecture 13 - Febre and Martin: ‘The Discovery of Printing’ and ‘The Chinese Precedent’

Lecture 14 - Guteberg and Revolution 15th Century

Lecture 15 - Consequences of Print 16-17 Century

Lecture 16 - John Dryden: [macFlecknoe]

Lecture 17 - Robert Darnton: ‘What is the History of Books?’

Lecture 18 - Benedict Anderson: ‘The Origins of National Consciousness’

Lecture 19 - Colonialism

Lecture 20 - Print in Bengal

Lecture 21 - Surveillance and Censorship

Lecture 22 - Rise of the Telugu Novel

Lecture 23 - Publishing in Hindi and Urdu

Lecture 24 - Walter Benjamin: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'

Lecture 25 - Raymond Williams: 'Television'

Lecture 26 - Jay David Bolter: Seeing and Writing

Lecture 27 - Robert Coover: The End of Books - Part 1

Lecture 28 - Robert Coover: The End of Books - Part 2

Lecture 29 - N. katherine Hayles: Electronic Literature

Lecture 30 - Richard Stallman: The GNU Manifesto

Lecture 31 - Lawrence Lessig: Free Cultures

Lecture 32 - Copyright - Part 1

Lecture 33 - Copyright - Part 2

Lecture 34 - Nicholas Carr: Juggler’s Brain

Lecture 35 - Scott Galloway: Google

Lecture 36 - Zeynep Tufecki: Twitter and Facebook - Part 1

Lecture 37 - Zeynep Tufecki: Twitter and Facebook - Part 2

Lecture 38 - Conclusion