Mass production, mass communication, and organized science

The central question

What changes when production, media, and science operate at scale?

What we will explore

• Assembly lines, consumer goods, radio/film/television; how scale affected workers and audiences
• Selected modern-physics ideas, wartime research, and the growth of large research teams; who funds and directs science

By the end of the lecture

Explain how production, media, and research became large collective enterprises, and what that changed socially.

Lecture materials

The lecture slides will bring together explanations, visual examples, and review questions for independent study.

PPTX download forthcoming.