CLT209 Media Languages and Cultures (8)
CSU Discipline Area: Sociology (SOCIO)
Duration: One session
Abstract:
Media Languages and Cultures introduces methods of media description and analysis. These methods include semiotics and discourse analysis, but also basic techniques of text-description. The subject examines not just the languages used in media, but also the cultures these media now produce. We live in such a highly media-oriented world that not only must we negotiate it as consumers, but also, increasingly, we find ourselves employed in constructing it. An understanding of media and the texts they produce is essential to our daily lives, as well as to many fields of employment. For this reason, the subject also deals with the vocational and professional contexts of the media industries themselves.
+ Subject Availability Modes and Locations
| Session 2 | |
|---|---|
| Internal | Bathurst |
| Distance | Bathurst |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: CLT209
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
Assumed Knowledge:
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- be able to describe media texts
- be able to recognise media text-types
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the specificities of different media (print, broadcast, etc.)
- be able to demonstrate a basic understanding of ethical debates about actual issues concerning the media
- be able to deploy appropriate methods of textual analysis
- be able to demonstrate an understanding of the languages associated with particular media
- be able to demonstrate a sound understanding of media cultures, especially those associated with production and consumption of media texts
Syllabus:
The subject will cover the following topics:
- analysis of visual images - analysis of advertisements - describing and analysing print and broadcast news/current affairs - methods of textual analysis - new and old media formations - media values and environments - media and society A range of approaches to analysis of media texts (such a semiotics and discourse analysis) will be deployed rather than any one method.
The information contained in the 2013 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 24 April 2013. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.