COMMS 703

Popular Communication and Politics


Please note: this is archived course information from 2021 for COMMS 703.

Description

Explores popular communication across a range of media, genres, texts and technologies to consider the political nature of the cultures, patterns of use, and modes of interpretation that emerge around them. The course will examine the cultural appropriation, adoption, adaptation and distribution of communicative media as well as the political economy of communication, consumer culture and varying forms of fandom.

Availability 2021

Not taught in 2021

Lecturer(s)

TBA

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Assessment


Points

COMMS 703: 30 points

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