Dec 26, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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SOC 4130 - Media and Society


The proliferation of new media/technology and its impact upon social life; the dramatic impact of an intensely global visual culture upon social life; tensions in race, gender, and sexuality in representation; the resurgence and cultural functions of the real in box office documentary and reality television; ideological debates about media effects and violence; the limits of representation (images of death, torture, war, and genocide) and the end(s) of the social.

Requisites: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will become familiar with the pervasiveness of media in our society, new media configurations, and their global ramifications.
  • Students will become more informed and critical media consumers and practitioners.
  • Students will explore issues of social representation in political, ideological, and cultural contexts.
  • Students will explore overlooked ways in which visual objects intersect daily with our lives, experiences, and memories.
  • Students will learn how media ownership, access, and globalization impact social configurations of structure and agency.
  • Students will understand identity politics and tensions in race, gender, and sexuality in representation.



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