Fundamentals of the Sociology of Media
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Level: Graduate
Division: The New School for Public Engagement
School: School of Media Studies
Department: Media Studies
Course Number: NMDS 5221
Course Format: Lecture
Location: NYC campus
Permission Required: No
Description:
The object of this course is to examine the notions of medium and mediation from different perspectives. For this purpose the course will cover three main areas. First, it will survey theories and theoretical approaches to media that, directly or indirectly, have contributed to the definition of the field, such as medium theory, information theory, semiotics, cultural studies, mediology and others. Second, it will critically examine today's media industry, its institutional apparatus, its forms of production and distribution, and its economic and political power. It will be argued that the media are a constitutive element in the power structure of capitalist societies. Third, it will relate some media-specific historical and technological changes such as reproduction, recording, transmission, and networking, to the transformation of social experience. Finally, the course will suggest that it is from the combination of these three levels of analysis that one can understand the experience of mediation and the mediation of experience.
Restrictions:College
Open to New School Public Engagement students.
Level
Open to Graduate students.
Major
Open to Documentary Media Studies students.
Open to Environmental Studies students.
Open to Global Studies students.
Open to International Affairs students.
Open to Liberal Arts students.
Open to Media Studies students.
Open to Media Management students.
Open to Media Management students.
