Global Media Industries

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In this class, students will learn about entertainment media, media systems, new media and the ways in which they interconnect with globalization, colonialism and imperialism. Here, students will contextualize media across national contexts paying attention to how mass media shapes or is shaped by social, political, religious and economic factors. They will learn how to do critical comparative analyses of entertainment media across nations and from these analyses make projections about how media have and will influence key events intra-nationally and transnationally.