COMMS 703

Popular Communication and Politics

Please note: this is archived course information from 2023 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 2023

Not taught in 2023

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

COMMS 703: 30 points