Debates in Media Studies B (P3069)
Debates in Media Studies B
Module P3069
Module details for 2023/24.
15 credits
FHEQ Level 4
Module Outline
This course explores some of the most well-known and widely regarded theoretical and critical approaches used in the study of media today. It also identifies and analyses the debates circulating around those approaches. In asking 'What is the subject of media'' and 'How should we study it', different approaches come up with very different answers. Media can be approached as ritual, (global) industry, meaning-maker, technology, dreamworld, everyday life, work place, sensual pleasure machine. Focus can switch from media production and organisation to analysis of media output, to exploration of consumption and use, to the bigger issue of media in society.
In carving a way through this complexity the course will introduce a few key frameworks - for example 'political economy', 'critical race studies', 'psychoanalysis', 'feminist media theory' - and alert you to how differences of approach have emerged depending on the specific medium or cultural form (radio, TV, cinema, internet, newspaper, advertising, music etc). However, a repeated reference point for the course is the cultural output of media and methods analysis, especially modes of textual analysis.
Module learning outcomes
Demonstrate a knowledge of the work of key scholars associated with particular approaches and begin to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their studies
Demonstrate an ability to mobilise appropriate approaches in the analysis of selected media examples and texts
Develop ideas and arguments effectively in written form
Show evidence reading and analysis over the duration of the course
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 100.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Essay | A2 Week 2 | 50.00% |
| Log | T2 Week 8 | 50.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Semester | Lecture | 1 hour | 11111111010 |
| Spring Semester | Seminar | 1 hour | 11111111111 |
How to read the week pattern
The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.
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