CULT201-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

Media Audiences

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

Description

How does our media consumption shape our opinions, actions, identities and lives? And how do audiences influence the production and circulation of media? This course will examine the relationship between audiences and media. We will discuss theory and research that represents audiences as passive consumers of media products, active decoders of media texts, and participants in interactive media production. The course will look at a broad range of media forms (such as television, radio, film, the Internet, social networking tools, and videogames), and content (including violence, reality television, romance novels, news, and political blogs). "Media Audiences" will encourage you to reflect on your own relationship with media, and to consider the broader contexts that shape your listening, viewing, reading, and interaction.

Prerequisites

COMS101 or COMS102.  Students without this prerequisite but with at least a B average in 60 points in relevant courses may enter the course with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Contact Person

Zita Joyce

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Bibliography 20%
Research Report 35%
Tutorial Attendance 5%
Final Exam 40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $619.00

International fee $2,688.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All CULT201 Occurrences

  • CULT201-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
  • CULT201-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012 - Not Offered
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