HUMA 1780 Section B 6.0 Stories in Diverse Media

A course about who benefits

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What is this course about?

The media whos?

• • • • • • Who makes the stories?

Who legitimizes them?

Who distributes them?

For whom are they produced?

Who gets represented in these stories as ‘normal’? Who gets represented as “other”? and who is altogether left out of representation?

Who consumes these stories as fact? Who consumes these stories for pleasure? Who consumes these stories critically?

• • • • • • Who benefits?

Who defines what the culture understands to be “reality”? Whose “reality” is being represented?

Who/what is absent/disappeared, marginalized or set in opposition? To whom is this being told?

What are the core assumptions? Who benefits from this telling? What are the benefits? At what/whose expense? How/Could this story be told otherwise? How do the absent/disappeared/marginalized define themselves?

How does this relate to my own experiences?

How/does this move me to change my thinking/acting/world?

do diverse media actually exist?

Grades • •

Evaluation

Tests and Projects 80% Tutorial Assignments 20%

Lateness Penalties and Missed Tests

readings

A quick look ahead: • • • • •

September 7-

Intro lecture: Kellner- “Towards a Critical Media/Cultural Studies”

September 14-

Gennaro “Purchasing the Teenage Canadian Identity”

Douglas Kellner: Towards a Critical Media/Cultural Studies

Media as stories

Media as spectacle

Media as pedagogy

Critical media literacy

The 3-Pronged Approach Political economy Textual analysis Audience reception