760-220 Telemedia

Formerly available as 760-322 and 760-220 Impact of the Media. Students who have completed 760-322 and 760-220 Impact of the Media are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Usually 12.5 points of first year visual media subjects.

This subject is an introduction to the study of television and its cultural impact as one of the most recent and significant (in terms of its scope and influence) creative art-forms. It explores topics such as theories of mass media (in respect of production, circulation and consumption); genre; ideological critique; textual reception (fandom); issues of content regulation and censorship; postmodernism; and television's convergence with newer media technologies such as 'cable' and the internet.

• demonstrate familiarity with a broad range of media-related materials and some knowledge of various theoretical approaches (such as Narratology, Semiotics and Psychoanalytic theory) useful in the interpretation and analysis of visual material;

• demonstrate some critical understanding of the debates that divide the theoretical arena;

• understand and feel comfortable with the various analytic skills, theoretical vocabularies and conceptual apparatuses studied;

• demonstrate a sense of your own personal and cultural reflexivity as you observe and interpret the theories, concepts and texts analysed in the subject;

• write clear, grammatically and syntactically appropriate, independent essays on the various topics provided or chosen for assessment.

Assignments totalling 4000 words comprising of an essay of 2000 words 50% (due mid semester) and an essay of 2000 words 50% (due end of semester).

A subject reader will be available for purchase.