Course Content (Syllabus)
The course provides a range of skills in media analysis focusing on the societal role of new media. It introduces central theories and concepts from traditional to new media and by doing so, it addresses a broad range of subfields of media sociology; media ownership, media and democracy, identity and media, media and politics. Critical attention is given to the meaning-making, participatory and data-processing capacities of media through case studies that apply to these capacities.By the end of the semester, students should have a good grasp of the key facets of the media-society relationship and knowledge of the characteristics oftraditional and new media and the ways they interconnect and influence culture.
Keywords
communication, media, society, globalisation