SO254 - Media Audiences and Social Change
Media audiences are key to the production of new understandings of collectivity, belonging, exclusion and personhood such as celebrity. This module provides frameworks for understanding the social significance of interaction between media and audiences, against the backdrop of historical changes in media popularisation and use, in interaction with social norms and existing inequalities.
Media, Audiences and Social Change provides insights into the benefits of employing interdisciplinary approaches and methods through drawing upon (in addition to sociology) the fields of media, cultural studies, gender studies, queer theory and critical race theory. For the assessment, you will produce an essay in choosing your own case study for analysis, drawing on the methods and forms of analysis discussed through the module.
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Key Information
Optional Module
15 CATS
Summative Assessment: 2000 Reflective and Analytical Essay (100%)
Teaching: 1 hour lecture and 1 hour seminar per week
Module Convenor: Akane Kanai
the module, including both applying these ideas to their personal experiences with media and also
critically engaging with relevant empirical and theoretical literature. Formative assessment will take
the form of open-book online quizzes on the readings. These will serve a self-diagnostic role for
the students.