Experimental Re-Creation

Distributing Science

In the 1920s and 1930s, 16mm film projectors first spread throughout American classrooms. In the 1950s and 60s, television spread throughout American households. Educational, governmental and industrial groups produced science programming for specific and general audiences.  Consider these films, and the specific technologies by means of which they were produced and networks by means of which they were distributed, in terms of McLuhan’s concept of “the medium is the message.”

Exposé:
Breaking Into the Black Box

Human Interest