Fall 2023 - CMNS 315 D100
Topics in Media, Difference, and Intersectional Identities (4)
Class Number: 4471
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 6 – Oct 6, 2023: Tue, 8:30–11:20 a.m.
VancouverOct 11 – Dec 5, 2023: Tue, 8:30–11:20 a.m.
Vancouver
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Instructor:
DAL JIN
djin@sfu.ca
1 778 782-5116
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Prerequisites:
17 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 45 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Focus on how media play a role in the representation, construction, and circulation of difference and identities by drawing from feminist theories, cultural studies and/or political economy to critique dominant conceptions. Topics may include how difference and identities intersect with: gaming, film, and technology. This course can be repeated once for credit (up to a maximum of two times).
COURSE DETAILS:
This course examines global transformations in media (mainstream and alternative) in historical and contemporary terms. We begin the semester by interrogating globalization as a critical and intensely contested concept, and then proceed to explore how it has influenced a variety of media (print, broadcast, digital, film, social media, platform technologies) in broad international and comparative contexts. During the semester, we will address a number of key political, economic, cultural and technological issues relative to globalization, such as the new world information and communication order (NWICO) campaign of the 1970s, cultural imperialism vs. heterogeneity, contra-flow of media products, global governance/international agreements and the powers of the nation-state, the ‘clash’ vs. ‘dialogue’ of civilizations, global corporate media ownership, new media and citizen journalism, the world summit on information society (WSIS), civil society intervention in global media policies among others. The goal is to introduce students to core theoretical concepts which they should apply critically to a broad range of contemporary media policies, practices, movements and technologies in different geographic regions of the world – North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, Asia; the Middle-East etc., with a view to determining how they shape and are shaped by globalization.
Grading
- Attendance/participation 10%
- Mid-Term Exam 30%
- Presentation 20%
- Final Essay 40%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Dal Yong Jin (2020). Globalization and Media in the Digital Platform Age. Routledge.
Lechner, Frank, and John Boil (2015). The Globalization Reader(TGR). Blackwell. We will use some chapters from this book, and do not need to buy this textbook.
Other materials will be found on Canvas.
REQUIRED READING NOTES:
Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.
Registrar Notes:
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS
SFU’s Academic Integrity website http://www.sfu.ca/students/academicintegrity.html is filled with information on what is meant by academic dishonesty, where you can find resources to help with your studies and the consequences of cheating. Check out the site for more information and videos that help explain the issues in plain English.
Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the university community. Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the university. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the university. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html
RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION
Students with a faith background who may need accommodations during the semester are encouraged to assess their needs as soon as possible and review the Multifaith religious accommodations website. The page outlines ways they begin working toward an accommodation and ensure solutions can be reached in a timely fashion.