Media and Identity

Catalog description

This course examines the role of media as a cultural site where media professionals construct and/or are constructed by differences in social divisions of class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality in society. We will study media representation as a symbolic system of making boundaries among social groups and (re)producing the meaning of othering, exclusion, and marginalization. We will also consider media as a battlefield where media professionals tackle and transform current systems of power and hierarchy. By analyzing media texts, students will configure the cultural dynamics, aesthetic expressions, and social inequalities represented in U.S. media.