Media Sociology

Catalog description

This course examines the relationship between media (and journalism in particular) and society by addressing the impact of society on media and the impact of media on society. It connects media actors, organizations, and institutions to important sociological concepts, such as socialization, social interaction, social roles, and social structures, concerns, such as power, ideology, autonomy, and identity, and debates, such as agency-structure, subjectivity-objectivity, and stability-change. Graded on A-F basis only. Credit Hour s : 3