| Description | We will begin this media studies project-based course with
discussion, reading, and short writing assignments about three
key concepts in media studies--representation, affect, and
ideology--before moving into the project-based component of the
course. Students can use a variety of sources and expressive
modes to engage with the social, political, and cultural power of
media, broadly defined. 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? |