Problems in Media Communication

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This course will examine contemporary problems of mediated communication, including gatekeeping, propaganda, agenda setting, cultural transmission, regulation and censorship, regulation and censorship, and commercialization. Students will examine the discursive implications of newspaper, radio, television, film, computer, polling, and advertising technologies. Students will assume a rhetorical perspective to evaluate the role of these technologies in shaping public opinion and our perceptions of reality.