How is meaning created and communicated across various media? You’ll explore a range of key forms across the historical continuum of media practice. These trends will span both traditional and new forms of media content, such as print, film, television, the internet and user generated content. Media are therefore studied in this module as processes of transmission that shape and constrain what can be communicated through previous generations and into the future. You’ll also build your own everyday experiences of media as consumers, audiences and users to develop skills to critically analyse different media texts, culture and systems.
LecSem 16, Workshop 16
1500 words (or equivalent) Digital
Portfolio . Assessment Details: Complete a series of practical tasks worth 50%.
1500 words Essay . Assessment Details: Essay worth 50%.
Reassessment Method: Like-for-like
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
Examine the history of mediated forms.
Analyse the ways in which specific media and their technologies make different kinds of understanding and communication possible.
Identify the major thinkers, debates and key texts relevant to Media Studies.
Investigate and evaluate media as a process of transmission that shapes and constrains what can be communicated.
Apply acquired knowledge via practical engagement with tasks associated with everyday media practice.
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