MDST 115 Media Audiences and Method
This course provides an introduction to some of the major critical methods for conceptualizing and analyzing the audience in media studies, with a particular focus on the digital era. We analyze a variety of media forms including film, television, radio, video games, social media, and other forms of digital media, opening up ways of thinking about how media texts shape our identities, politics, experiences, and sense of what is possible in the world. We also study and practice different approaches to writing about media. The goal of this course is to provide students with the basic methodological tools to think, speak, and write critically about different forms of media and their audiences. Lecture.