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Media and Technology
Media and Technology explores the concept of race and ethnicity through the analysis of media systems and institutions, communication frames and symbolic representations and social constructions. These courses introduce and critique social theories and methodologies used to analyze and expand the African American presence in the media and on the Internet. We examine theories and the use of race and representation and explore current issues in cyberculture and how they relate to age-old trends concerning injustice and inequality. Courses explore the various ways that the Internet affects African American communities in general and issues of representation, identity, education and power in particular. Topics include online networking activity and youth digital media use on social networking sites and all of the surrounding issues, ranging from safety to sexualization. |
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This course is concerned with how gender and race are represented and constructed within a variety of mediums and contexts and how it can have different meanings across social settings. The course introduces students to the field of gender and communication and some of the principal questions of feminist theory, as viewed from linguistics, media studies and sociolinguistics. We will explore the ways in which gender is socially constructed and the implications this process has for men and women. We will engage and evaluate a wide variety of contexts and texts including everyday interactions, media texts and imagery, all forms of print media, animation, graphic imagery, television, film and video, the Internet, and multimedia production. The course has a strong international and multicultural focus, drawing on descriptions of women and men's speech across the globe. In particular, we will examine how everyday representations, interactions, media, film, popular culture and journalism, incorporate gender and sexuality and at times perpetuate stereotypes about men, women and sexuality in general. |
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