This schedule is subject to change
Weeks 1-2: Intro: Media, Culture and Society
Media Culture and Society 1-2
Revolutions in Communication 1
Recommended readings:
McLuhan, Marshall, “Media Hot and Cold”, “The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis”, in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), 24-35; 45-52.
Week 3: Media Industries: Printing Revolutions (Writing, print, newspapers)
Revolutions in Communication 2-3
Week 4: Media Industries: Visual Revolution (photography, cinema, advertising, PR, crafted image)
Revolutions in Communication 4-9
Media Culture and Society 9
Week 5: Electronic Revolution (telegraph, radio, TV),
Revolutions in Communication 10-12
Week 6:
Midterm
Week 7: Political Economy and Public Sphere: Media Industry and Ideology
Media Culture and Society 3, 6, 8
Week 8: Construction of News and public sphere
Media Culture and Society 7, 10
Week 9: Media Content and Media Users: Introducing Cultural Studies
Media Culture and Society 5
Additional readings
Week 10: Media Content and Media Users: Cultural Studies & Semiotics
Media Culture and Society 4
Hall, Stuart (1974) “The television discourse; encoding and decoding”, in (2002), McQuail's Reader in Mass Communication Theory (London: SAGE), pp. 303-308.
Additional Readings
Week 11: Media Content and Media Users: Semiotics, Ethnography & Reception Studies
Media Culture and Society 5, 12
Additional readings TBA
Week 12-13: Race and Ethnicity; Media, Gender and Sexuality
Media Culture and Society 11, 13-14
Additional readings TBA
Final project due, presentations scheduled during week
Week 14: Conclusion: Wrap up and review of main concepts
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