Race and Reporting in America: Diversity and the Media

Catalog description

This course will explore issues facing the U.S. media as it struggles to understand and cover an increasingly diverse society. Through discussion, critical readings and debate, students will examine the media's role in shaping perceptions about social groups and the inequities that trouble our nation, their root causes, and potential solutions. The course will identify stereotypes and bias in media coverage and look at how communities are using digital and social media to fight back. It will also examine community and ethnic media - its past and future, strengths and weaknesses.