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Media, culture and society

2021/2022
Учебный год
ENG
Обучение ведется на английском языке
4
Кредиты
Кто читает:
Институт медиа
Статус:
Курс по выбору
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 3, 4 модуль

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Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course offers an introduction to media cultures. It explores fundamental theories, concepts and models for the study of media in relation to contemporary culture and society. The course is divided in two key parts: (1) Critical issues in the study of media and society and (2) Media consumption. The first part focusses on understanding media texts as well as on deconstructing their meanings and influence upon audiences. It examines different conceptualizations of media audiences in relation to participatory digital cultures. Some of the themes discussed in this part include the impact of media on identities and social life, representations of gender, ethnicity and race in the media, digital media and the public sphere. The first part mostly equips students with key analytical tools to identify, explore and measure the impact of media on contemporary social life and culture. The second part of the course surveys different types of media, including print, visual, film, Internet and beyond, discussing how they are produced, organized and consumed by contemporary audiences and communities. The course concludes with several lectures that focus on the relationship between media and society by examining how they are shaped across time and space in global and transcultural environments.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • introduce students to the critical analysis of media through the study of media texts, their meanings and influences, media audiences and social changes, new media communications and cultures
  • Explore main concepts in media sociology, such as media representation, ideology, discourse, narrative, transmedia and trans-culture
  • Investigate major types of media as differentiated in terms of their organizing bodies, products and modes of consumption and interaction
  • Explore key issues of the relevance and significance of media in contemporary culture and social life
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Students are able to analyse media texts as an intermediary between audiences and media industries
  • Students are able to analyse the role of media in human perception of space
  • Students are able to analyse the role of media in human perception of time
  • Students are able to critically engage with concepts of media globalization and can analyse the processes of cultural homogenization and heterogenisation
  • Students are able to deconstruct and analyse trans-media texts and explore their composition and meanings
  • Students are able to define media influences and analyse effects produced by media upon audiences
  • Students are able to identify different types and segments of media audiences and are able to analyse them through different methods.
  • Students are able to understand main typologies and patterns of consumption and production of print media
  • Students are able to understand main typologies and patterns of consumption and production of sound motion media
  • Students are able to understand main typologies and patterns of consumption and production of visual media
  • Students are able to understand the role of media institutions in production and circulation of media.
  • Students are able to understand the transformational work played by socially significant words (digital keywords) in the current information age.
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Media Texts
  • Media Institutions
  • Media Audiences
  • Media Influence
  • Media Globalization
  • Print Media
  • Media Images
  • Sound and Motion
  • Transmedia
  • Media and Time
  • Media and Space
  • Digital Keywords
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Participation 10%
    Class participation constitutes an important part of the grade. It includes proper attendance (checked and recorded for each class) and active participation in group exercises, discussions and online activities.
  • non-blocking Concept Presentation: A Digital Keyword (oral) 25%
    The Concept Presentation is an analysis of a media concept of your choice from the book Digital Keywords by Benjamin Peters (2016). It should engage appropriate theoretical foundations to frame your presentation to explore and discuss key intersections between media, culture and society.
  • non-blocking Project Proposal (25%)
    Project Proposal is an outline of the final research project.
  • non-blocking Final Project (40%)
    Final Project should examine a specific issue, case or concept within a broad field of media topics in relation to culture and society.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2021/2022 4th module
    0.25 * Project Proposal (25%) + 0.4 * Final Project (40%) + 0.25 * Concept Presentation: A Digital Keyword (oral) 25% + 0.1 * Participation 10%
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Amezaga Albizu, J. (2011). Media Globalization and the Debate on Multiculturality. Spain, Europe: InTech. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.BE28E7C7
  • Burton, G. (2010). Media and Society : Critical Perspectives (Vol. 2nd ed). Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=466475
  • Fornäs, J. (2007). Consuming Media : Communication, Shopping and Everyday Life. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=231116
  • Peters, B. (2016). Digital Keywords : A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1159032

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Barker, T. S. (2012). Time and the Digital : Connecting Technology, Aesthetics, and a Process Philosophy of Time. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=475100
  • Dawkins, M. A. (2009). Lisa Nakamura: Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.74E9EA20
  • Harbord, J. (2002). Film Cultures. London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=251425
  • Hudson, D. M., & Zimmermann, P. R. (2015). Thinking Through Digital Media : Transnational Environments and Locative Places. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1172804
  • Joyce, S. (2018). Transmedia Storytelling and the Apocalypse. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1876988
  • Matheson, D. (2005). Media Discourses : Analysing Media Texts. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=234023
  • Ross, K., & Nightingale, V. (2003). Media and Audiences : New Perspectives. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=234089
  • Sayre, S., & King, C. (2010). Entertainment and Society : Influences, Impacts, and Innovations (Vol. 2nd ed). New York: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=316441
  • Thimm, C., Anastasiadis, M., & Einspänner-Pflock, J. (2018). Media Logic(s) Revisited : Modelling the Interplay Between Media Institutions, Media Technology and Societal Change. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1656449
  • Usher, N. (2014). George Brock, Out of Print: Newspapers, Journalism and the Business of News in the Digital Age. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.C6DFC7FF