The proliferation of visual media and its technology including film and television, videoconferencing and multimedia, the Internet and online communication is transforming the way students encounter the humanities, both within and outside the classroom. These changes represent pedagogical challenges as well as new areas of content learning. In Humanities and the Visual Media, contributors from a variety of disciplines address the intersection of humanities education and the visual media in all its forms.
The book begins with several essays addressing the impact of technology (including...