MDIA 590

Fall 2011

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Credit: 2 TO 8 hours.

May be repeated in the same or in multiple semesters if topics vary.

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53208
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/11-12/07/11
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
57703
Lecture-Discussion
E
2:00PM -4:50PM
M
336 Gregory Hall
Reisner, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/11-12/07/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Sociology of News
Section Info:
Sociology of News - Production and Content: Examines the media logics that convey, shape, and define public life. Particular attention will be paid to how succeeding theorists critique/extend earlier explanations of news production, what evidence is used in specific research studies, and the limitations of evidence/analysis presented in individual papers for understanding news production/content. The final course project will be a research proposal prepared using the guidelines for submission to a social science or humanities granting agency
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
58294
Lecture-Discussion
H
5:30PM -8:20PM
T
336 Gregory Hall
Hay, J
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/11-12/07/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
New Directions in Media Theory
Section Info:
Description: Reviews a broad range of recent theories about media. Primarily focuses on theories of contemporary media and their context, but will devote some attention to recent theories that have rethought earlier media/contexts. Focuses on media theory, but also examines how this theory informs various kinds of analysis. Though the course is offered through the College of Media and the Institute of Communications Research, it is designed for students from any discipline who have an interest in media and/or theory.
57704
Lecture-Discussion
Z
2:00PM -4:50PM
R
336 Gregory Hall
Chan, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/22/11-12/07/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Techno-Scientific Networks
Section Info:
Title: Techno-Scientific Networks: Productivity and Protest in the Age of Digital Networks - From Bittorrent to Twitter, and from transnational fast food franchises to free software producers, global networks have emerged as the defining organizational structure of the contemporary information age. Capable of channeling the productive and creative potential of diverse participants, and organizing the knowledge- and information-based exchanges of individuals, they have at once become the circuits through which new forms of political contest and challenges to logics of social inclusion/exclusion manifest. This course examines the network as a social formation that responds to the current conditions of digitaliz-able capital, labor, and governance. And it will study networks as discursive technologies that manifest the political tension between free markets and free individuals, and between the competing aspirations of participatory democracy and late capitalism. With readings from Michel Foucault, Hardt & Negri, James Scott, David Harvey, Nikolas Rose, Manuel Castells, Jean and John Comaroff, Bruno Latour, Anna Tsing, Marcel Mauss, Clifford Geertz.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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