MEDIA AUDIENCE CULTURES

COMARTS 325

Investigate the ways in which individuals use, create, and respond to media content in the context of increasingly blurred boundaries between "mass" and "interpersonal" media. We will consider social scientific theories and research on a wide array of topics, including media uses and effects with regard to social connection, learning, judgments, perceptions, stereotypes, violence, consumption, and political participation.

COMARTS 448

Examination of the various roles that film, television, and other media play in creating, challenging, and negotiating national and global identities.

COMARTS 903

Current research in cultural studies, audience effects, broadcast regulation, history of broadcasting and comparative national systems.

COMARTS 250

Key concepts for the critical analysis of television, film, radio, and digital media. Focusing primarily on meanings, aesthetics, technology, media industries, representations, and audiences.

COMARTS 458

Analysis of media systems, practices and uses from a global perspective.