C I 5835 - Media Influence and Identity Across Cultures (3)

When Offered: Spring
This media literacy course concentrates on media representations, media audiences, and media effects, including the sociocultural, spatial, and geographic contexts of media consumption and production. Media ranging from mass media to local/global media to social media are studied in terms of their depiction and representations of individuals, institutions, identities, issues, and places. Key categories of exploration include examining identity and media representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, etc. across a variety of media forms and global/local contexts.