Course overview
This course will focus on understanding media as a dynamic network of intersecting cultures, economies, institutions, and texts. Students will be introduced to knowledge and theories about the history, evolution, and proliferation of media cultures, including TV, film, video games, social media, and podcasting, and consider contemporary shifts in the production and consumption of media texts.
- Production
- Circulation
- Reception
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between text and paratext using critical theories and frameworks
- Conduct research on media cultures, texts, contexts and paratext
- Apply media and communication studies scholarship on the history, evolution, and proliferation of media cultures
- Examine the relationship between text and paratext using conceptual and theoretical frameworks relevant to media cultures
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Group 1
Class number 62398
Section WS01
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 68151
Section WS03
Size 35
Available 35
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