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106-003 Media and Cultural Difference | |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Phillip Morrissey & Marcia Langton |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year English. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester |
Subject Description | This subject will examine how audiences read media representations of social and cultural difference. Students will explore the consumption of media-constructed difference in terms of identity, ethnicity, class, gender, race, age and sub-culture. We will be interested in the relative invisibility and visibility of the construction of the media message. Case studies (which will be largely concerned with Australia) may include studies of leadership, sport, the body, conflict and war, the nation, the region, events beyond the national borders. These case studies will highlight changes in media literacy or competency in a range of audiences. The subject will draw from various media forms, including print, television news and current affairs, television infotainment (including lifestyle programming), soaps, radio talk-back and cyber-space. |
Assessment | Class participation, and written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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