Media and Society

Catalog description

There are many significant changes to contemporary media. About these changes, we need to think critically about recent media developments as will as the many enduring relationships between media and society. In Media and Society, we take an interdisciplinary approach with a sociological focus to answer questions like how do people use the media in their everyday lives? and how has the evolution of technology affected the media and how we use them? Our approach to media allows us to cover a wide range of questions. In addition, this class incorporates the latest scholarship and data that address enduring media topics, as well as new concerns raised by the role of digital platforms, the impact of misinformation online, and the role of media during the COVID-19 pandemic.