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.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate and understanding of the relationship between text and paratext using critical theories and frameworks
- Conduct academic and media research and writing on media cultures, contexts and paratext
- Apply media and communication studies scholarship on the history, evolution, and proliferation of media cultures
- Analyse the relationship between text and paratext using conceptual and theoretical frameworks relevant to media cultures
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus West
Class number 55934
Section WS01
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 55933
Section WS02
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 55932
Section WS03
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 55931
Section WS04
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 55930
Section WS05
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 60237
Section LE01
Size 175
Available 175
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