Course overview
This course considers the relationship between media texts, industries, and cultures in the era of on-demand media to understand what it means to make and consume texts today. Using case studies of TV, video games, popular music and social media, students will develop critical knowledges on how digital and participatory technologies shape textuality, representation, and audience practices.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the critical scholarship and theories that explain on-demand media
- Examine the relationship between on-demand media texts, industries and cultures
- Apply and synthesise relevant theoretical concepts related to on-demand media at the levels of text, industry and audience
- Analyse current and emerging practices and issues related to on-demand media