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May 16, 2024
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MS089B PO - Media and International CommunicationWhen Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): Z.Volcic
Credit: 1
This course will analyze the way in which media across the world influence perceptions of identity and belonging and their relationship to geography and temporality. The 20th century has been witness to fundamental changes in the roles that global media play in altering social relations, global economics and cultural identity. The course will present several case studies from around the world and encourage students to analyze the ways in which media interact to provide us with contemporary frames of reference concerning political identity, social change and memory. In the first part of the semester, we will explore different approaches to the relationship between national cultures and processes of globalization. We will familiarize ourselves with debates around issues of media as agents for national development, social change and identity. We will explore theories of social movements and community media. In the second half we will look at a series of case studies from around the world. (Europe, Australia, India, Middle East) to examine how local media are affected by transnational flow and vice versa. Letter grade only.
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