Media & Society: Assessment
Apr 1, 2024
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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
Media & Society: 01
Mar 31, 2024
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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
Media & Society: 02
Mar 30, 2024
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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
Media & Society: 03
Mar 29, 2024
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Why ‘Mass’? Communication models. “Producer-Text-Audience”. Contrasting the ‘dominant’ and ‘critical’ paradigms. Things to complete this for
Media & Society: 04
Mar 28, 2024
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In this session we will look at different approaches to ‘production’ and ‘producers’ - that is, how we can understand the processes behind the
Media & Society: 05
Mar 27, 2024
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This session looks at approaches to ‘Audiences’ and media ’consumption’by audiences. How do we define an audience? Does everyone involved think of
Media & Society: 06
Mar 26, 2024
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Approaches to Texts and media products: Framing, semiotics. The assessment for this course requires you to write THREE short papers. There
Media & Society: 07
Mar 25, 2024
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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
Media & Society: 08
Mar 24, 2024
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This session covers in greater depth some of the approaches to understanding and analysing the production of media content we have encountered
Media & Society: 09
Mar 23, 2024
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This session covers some of the characteristic features of the newspaper industry and journalism in Japan. We particularly focus on the decline of
Media & Society: 10
Mar 22, 2024
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This session outlines a variety of approaches to thinking about television and broadcasting, starting by looking at the organisations and bodies
Media & Society: 11
Mar 21, 2024
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Introducing a ‘cultural studies’ approach to television texts: Stuart Hall’s ‘Encoding/Decoding’ paper. This session is based on this seminal, but
Media & Society: 12
Mar 20, 2024
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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
Media & Society: 13
Mar 19, 2024
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New media, new politics? How has the arrival of ‘social media’ changed political communication and reporting? Download slides - PDF
Media & Society: 14
Mar 18, 2024
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New challenges to state power over ‘mass’ media: Fake news, social media, censorship and governmental control. If you are intending to submit SP4
Media & Society: 15
Mar 17, 2024
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We’ll use the final session to answer any remaining questions you might have — either about the things we’ve covered or assessment — and to recap