COM2030

Media Text: Practices and Audiences

(ART)

Mary Griffiths

6 points + 2 hours per week + Second semester + Clayton + Prerequisites: a first-year sequence in Communications or a related discipline + Prohibition: GSC2413

Synopsis: An analysis of realism as a regime of truth in a range of examples chosen from familiar media forms: news reporting, photographs, reality TV, community advice, documentary, soap operas, policy speeches, commentary and advertising. Medical, pornographic, scientific, historical and legal regimes of representation are studied as technologies through which audiences are provided with ways to think about themselves and others. Participation in on-line forum.

Assessment: Dossier (2000 words): 50% + Examination (2.5 hours): 50%