Global Media Cultures

Catalog description

Since the 1990s, theories of globalization have emphasized two main processes. One is the continuous time-space compression that is now felt in every aspect of human life; the other is the rapid movement and circulation of media, commodities, humans and capital. These previous works raise key questions for media studies: What are the roles of media in various global formations? Where and how do we encounter globalization/global media? This course will examine these questions with the following focuses: The entangled relation with the national, the regional and the local in the mediated imagination of the global; The ways media industries adapt to challenges of the global conditions; how global media practices enact and create different social desires (of mobility) and senses of belonging. Students will create both critical writing and video essays related to their observations of global media. Prerequisite: sophomore standing Fulfillment: IMA elective; IMB major IMA/IMB elective; Humanities Advanced Course/ Humanities Advanced Interdisciplinary Course.