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CAC 6 Mar 26, 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’

Media & Society: 07 Mar 25, 2024 M&S

Newspapers are the oldest mass media and are thus the root of much of the ‘common sense’ of other media industries which developed later. Industry

Essay Writing Top Tips Mar 25, 2024 CAC & Writing

Introduction (TOPIC - explain what you are going to do) (BODY - do what you said you were going to do) First body para Second body para Third body

CAC 7 Mar 25, 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: 08 Mar 24, 2024 M&S

This session covers in greater depth some of the approaches to understanding and analysing the production of media content we have encountered

CAC 8 Mar 24, 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: 09 Mar 23, 2024 M&S

This session covers some of the characteristic features of the newspaper industry and journalism in Japan. We particularly focus on the decline of

CAC 9 Mar 23, 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: 10 Mar 22, 2024 M&S

This session outlines a variety of approaches to thinking about television and broadcasting, starting by looking at the organisations and bodies

CAC 10 Mar 22, 2024 CAC

Feedback and discussion of essay topics

Media & Society: 11 Mar 21, 2024 M&S

Introducing a ‘cultural studies’ approach to television texts: Stuart Hall’s ‘Encoding/Decoding’ paper. This session is based on this seminal, but

CAC 11 Mar 21, 2024 CAC

What is ‘time’? What do human beings around the world think about time? Do we all agree on how time works? Also a brief look at ‘Chronemics’ and

Media & Society: 12 Mar 20, 2024 M&S

This session looks at the features of the broadcast system in Japan, illustrating the variety of factors that we have to take into account when

CAC 12 Mar 20, 2024 CAC

Proxemics. The culture and conceptions of position and direction. Language and space. Read the reading, Brown and Levinson 1993 look through the

Media & Society: 13 Mar 19, 2024 M&S

New media, new politics? How has the arrival of ‘social media’ changed political communication and reporting? Download slides - PDF