Section 1
Historical Perspectives
10 Hours lectures/seminars
Guideline Question(s)
How and how well did societies negotiate the challenges resulting from the introduction of new communication technologies?
The printing press
Books
Newspapers
Cinema
Wireless/radio
Television
Video and Computer Games
The Internet
Section 2
Media Structures and Regulation
10 Hours lectures/seminars
Guideline Question(s)
How do we finance the media?
How and how effectively are the media regulated and in whose interests?
How do we balance freedom of expression with cultural standards in multi cultural societies
How do we define and deal with taste and decency/harm and offence
Public service broadcasting: Cinema, Broadcasting & Press codes of practice
www.bbfc.co.uk
www.bbc.co.uk
www.bbctrust.co.uk
www.ofcom.org.uk
www.agcom.it
www.pegi.com
www.atvod.org.uk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Charter_on_self-regulation_of_the_press
Section 3
Media Content and Representations
10 Hours lectures/seminars
Guideline Question(s)
How well and accurately do the media represent cultural identities?
How do we define quality?
Cultural representation(s) and identities ; imperialism
Representations of lifestyles. Sex, violence; gender
Feminist approaches to media content
Section 4 Theories of Media Power and Media Effects
10 Hours lectures/seminars
Guideline Question(s)
What does the academic research have to say about media effects, media socialisation
media and children; media and minorities;
Creating or reinforcing prejudice
Section 5 Media Policy and the Political Process
10 Hours lectures/seminars
Guideline Question(s)
What is the nature of the relationship between popular/public opinion and democracy?
Who creates and influences media policies and how and in whose interest?
Citizen or Consumer? The public sphere?
Section 6
The Digital Present/Social Media and the Future
10 Hours lectures/seminars
Guideline Question(s)
Facebook and Twitter: in whose interests?
Smartphones, cyberspace and digital prvacy
The Online State and Security
The business imperative
Should the internet be regulated?
Patterns of media consumption and use. Snowden and Assange
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/23/heather-armstrong-leaving-d...
