Media and Society

Media and Society provides students with an introduction to the study of media and communications. This subject addresses the real-world issues related to the production and distribution of media, and the work of media audiences in both historical and contemporary contexts. How does media production, circulation and consumption differ across generations? Can the media theories developed in the mid-twentieth century help us to understand our media environments today and into the future? What will a career in the media and communications sectors look like in twenty or fifty years? These are the kinds of questions we will explore over the course of Media and Society. This subject engages students in debates over the relative analytical power of different research methods and interrogates the relationship between the media, politics and public life. Media and Society encourages students to develop their critical capacities by equipping them with the theoretical approaches to media studies to engage with the big ideas that define the future of the media.