Media, Technology and Society will examine contemporary broadcast and network media and the implications these have for identity, relationships, communities and governments. The unit adopts strategies of critical inquiry and research to examine: media forms such as print, film, television, the internet, mobile telephony; the social networking properties of the new media; surveillance media; and debates concerning critical media literacy, bias in the news and censorship. The unit will be of interest to any student wishing to explore social theory and research addressing contemporary media forms. -- Course Website
Instructor: Mark Davis
Prerequisites: A first-year sequence in Sociology or permission
