Media Industries and Audiences

Catalog description

This course is designed to enhance students' understanding of both media industries and media audiences. Through a combination of history, theory, and method the course explores the various ways that media industries and audiences operate, as well as how they are constructed and studied. Ultimately, this course connects the creation, dissemination, and consumption of media goods to larger social, political, economic, and cultural issues. It traces how ideas, attitudes, and information are created by media industries and consumed by media audiences and the larger impact this has on cultural formations. Prerequisite: CST 190 or CST 271 . Offered Occasionally.