Course Info: HACU-0255
| Course | HACU-0255 Media, Affect & Ideology |
| Long Title | Media, Affect & Ideology:Supported Projects |
| Term | 2024F |
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| Meeting Info | R.W Kern 202 on M,W from 1:00-2:20 |
| Faculty | Viveca Greene |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Available | 7 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Additional Info | This course can be used to fulfill the Division II Project requirement and is appropriate for Division III students. Prerequisite: At least one college-level media studies and/or cultural theory course completed prior to Sept 2024. Note: As there will be some degree of overlap with the professor's lower-level course, HACU 180, students should enroll in one or the other (depending on their divisional level) but not both. Students should expect to spend 12 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time |
| Description | We began this media studies project-based course by reading about and discussing three key concepts in media studies--representation, affect, and ideology--and then moved into the project-based component of the course. Students used a variety of sources and expressive modes to engage with the social, political, and cultural power of media, broadly defined. The course was connected to the Media & Technology Learning Collaborative's urgent question, “What constitutes 'truth' in a 'post-truth' era?”, which we approached through broad questions of our own related to media's role in arbitrating 'truth' and contributing to a 'post-truth' social and political environment: Who is represented, by whom, where, how, and with what effects? What dominant ideologies do media promote, facilitate, and cultivate? What emotion and affect are produced by media, what affective registers can we identify on social media platforms in particular, and what needs and desires might they speak to? How might the concepts of representation, ideology, and affect in critical media studies help us better understand disinformation and conspiracy theories, especially in light of recent general elections and the current presidential election? |