Class Name: Media, Culture & Society
CLASS INFO*
Class Description: Media, Culture & Society engages classical key debates and emerging scholarship in the field of mass communication and cultural studies. In this course, students will examine a wide range of theories, concepts, and case studies to deepen their knowledge and cultivate their critical thinking skills. This course explores defining themes and areas of scholarly inquiry that connect with pressing contemporary issues. Media, Culture & Society is designed to facilitate the exploration of classic media and cultural studies theories with contemporary communication studies scholarship, and to encourage students to conduct original documentary or primary research in an area of their own choosing. The goal is to build a knowledge community that bolsters and supports the intellectual, critical, pedagogical, creative, and emotional labour of the group in the elaboration of timely and relevant academic research.
Course learning objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
discuss and summarize foundational theories that informed the field of mass communication and cultural studies;
identify emerging work that advances our knowledge in diverse and inclusive ways;
analyze current events through theoretical lenses; and
apply, create, present new knowledge in creative and intellectually sound ways.
Textbooks Used in Class:
PRIMARY BOOK
https://we.riseup.net/assets/102142/appadurai.pdf
SECONDARY BOOK
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Media_Gaze/BNlncrChYs0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+Media+Gaze:+Representations+of+Diversities+in+Canada&printsec=frontcover
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING THEORISTS IN CLASS:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles
Antonio Gramasci
Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
Walter Benjamin
Jurgen Habermas
Louis Althusser
TALK ABOUT THESE TERMS:
Culture
Ideology
Hegemony
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PAPER INFO
Topic: Social Media versus Newspapers in Information Dissemination, Culture, and Values
Claim and argument
Claim and argument Example (Can use this as an example in direction to head in)
Media has played a vital role in information and knowledge dissemination since ancient times. Throughout the years, media has been rapidly changing from traditional forms of media such as the written word, painting and photography to modern art, the internet and online telecommunications. Nowadays, media companies rely on digital media greatly in reaching their audience than when using traditional media. This research will compare two medias; social media and newspapers and determine their accuracy, impact and influence in information dissemination and culture.
*Project Outline:*
Proposal:
Produce a description of your research project (not more than 250 words)
Annotated Bibliography: and create a bibliography of eight to 10 references (books, articles, book chapters, videos or podcasts) that you will consult during your preliminary research.
Prepare an annotated bibliography. Select works that will assist you in the completion of your final paper or project.
Use APA style of bibliographic citation. Annotated bibliographies should answer the following questions:
Ensure all following questions are answered:
1. What is the author’s principal argument and methodology?
2. What kinds of sources support those arguments?
3. What is the author’s objective (what is he/she/they arguing against, what historical oversights are being illuminated, etc.)?
4. How does the work fit in relation to the other readings (and to the material you’ve been considering in this class or others)? (This is when we can refer to other theorists and textbooks linked)
5. Finally, what is your intellectual reaction to the author’s work? (Do you agree with its basic premises, assumptions, and methodologies? Why or why not? What is the author’s relevance to your own work and interests?)
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