Global Media and Society

Catalog description

This course will familiarize students with a multi-cultural global perspective of a multi-media world. Students will become aware that media is now globalized and thus unifying cultures while at the same time pointing to distinct cultural differences. Students will have an historical perspective of American media conventions in traditional media formats and how these same conventions are reflected or contrasted in the media of other countries. Students will recognize the influence of media on social norms at the national and global levels. Students will be able to define media convergence and will have an understanding of future implications manifested in examples of converging media in various formats. Most importantly, students will understand how media convergence has contributed to globalized media.