Media & Society: Assessment
Sep 23, 2024
M&S
There are four ‘Short Papers’ assigned for this course, you should choose three of them. Please do not submit all four, this will not gain you extra
CAC 1
Sep 23, 2024
CAC
Who am I? Who are you? What is this course about? What is it not about? Nothing to prepare for the first week. Before the class ends, here will be a
CAC: Assessment
Sep 23, 2024
CAC
Assessment for this course is made up of two main parts; a final essay (70% of the final grade), and four (more personal) ‘reflection papers’ (20%).
CAC 2
Sep 22, 2024
CAC
This session looks at the birth of studies of ‘Cross/Intercultural Communication’. E.T. Hall and the Foreign Service Institute. “The Silent
CAC 3
Sep 21, 2024
CAC
Changing conceptions of the notion of ‘culture’. How did we get to where we are now? Culture as ‘growth’, culture as a ‘standard’, the emergence of
CAC 4
Sep 20, 2024
CAC
Postwar thinking on ‘culture’, the culture onion. Norms, values and beliefs. Cultural relativism and complexity. Download slides - PDF Dahl, S.
CAC 5
Sep 19, 2024
CAC
Quantitative approaches, survey methodology. The influence of Hofstede and Trompenaars. Read the McSweeney paper below Look through the slides
CAC 6
Sep 18, 2024
CAC
This week we take a look at how academics, and others, have tried to find ways to identify and discuss some sort of ‘proxy’ for ‘cultural’
CAC 7
Sep 17, 2024
CAC
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, languages and perception, national languages. Leave a comment on the manaba forum telling us about useful words and
Media & Society: 01
Sep 16, 2024
M&S
This week is just to introduce the course and to tell you about who I am. I will run you through what you can expect to learn during the course, how
CAC 8
Sep 16, 2024
CAC
This session introduces some basic approaches and findings from the field of ‘Sociolinguistics’: how societies and social groups use language to
Media & Society: 02
Sep 15, 2024
M&S
This session will be a very quick look at the history of the mass media; I choose to do this by looking at the developments in technology and how
CAC 9
Sep 15, 2024
CAC
Facial expressions, proxemics, gesture and ‘paralanguage’ as bearers of social meaning. As usual, check out the materials. Leave a comment in the
Media & Society: 03
Sep 14, 2024
M&S
Why ‘Mass’? Communication models. “Producer-Text-Audience”. Contrasting the ‘dominant’ and ‘critical’ paradigms. Read the McQuail chapter,
CAC 10
Sep 14, 2024
CAC
Feedback and discussion of essay topics
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