My Introduction!

My name is Ewan and I am a sophomore History major here at UMW. What interests me about the History of the Information Age is the evolution of information spread/impact, especially with the context of the modern day. I have never known a time without all of humanities collective knowledge in my pocket and never had to wait more than a few hours to hear about major events, even if they are across the world. I like wondering about how we got to this point as a society, and what have we lost/what has changed to achieve this age of instant information. Seeing how the phenomenon of information developed over time will be a throughline I’m excited to explore. As far as one past assignment I liked, the 2021 iteration of this class did an imaginary propaganda campaign for a fictitious leader utilizing three distinct modalities of information. I think that it is very clever and sounded very fun to do, but also demonstrated that era of information really well. One piece of advise I’ll take from the 2014 class is that I’ll do the readings to participate in the discussions so that it is less awkward. Especially in a class as small as ours, any awkward silence could be devastating, so I’m gonna try and stay on top of the readings to avoid that outcome. Thanks for reading my first blog post, there will be many more to come!