Global Media & U.S. Culture

Catalog description

We live in cultural and media saturation in the 21st century. Our experiences are now filtered through cultural productions; digital platforms allow many cultural productions to reach a global audience. With global markets for media, how do cultural productions form connections across borders and support international power structures? How do dominant forms of culture socialize us and provide materials for individual and collective identities? How can and do marginalized groups participate in and resist dominant media messages to create their own cultural and independent media? We will examine American and international mass media and alternative productions such as film, television, music, art, and social media.