This course is designed to give the students some important basic information on the nature and history of mass media .The course addresses such issues as the relationship between media and Society, characteristics of media institutions, media in relation to other institutions, institutions and powers, audience and effects related topics, media and new technology, facets of globalization and media and media imperialism.
Intended Learning Outcomes:
By the completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:
1.1 Understand how media systems are integrated and shaped by larger systems of power and cultural
understanding and, how in turn, those systems of power and stratification are dependent of communications.
1.2 Develop critical tools to explore how non-dominant groups including women, people of color, social class, and sexual orientation are represented in the media; the significance of those representations, the role of those representations in the reproduction of inequality and how those representations have changed over time.
1.3 Develop a meaningful understanding of the evolution of media systems and how inequality of access combined with the proliferation of platforms influence social perceptions and interaction, as well as social structure.
1.4 Write analytically about issues of race, class and gender in conjunction with media systems.