Humanities Arts Cultural Stu 0289 - Audiences, Gamers & Users

Fall
2018
1
4.00
Viveca Greene
12:30PM-01:50PM TU;12:30PM-01:50PM TH
Hampshire College
327275
R.W. Kern Center 202;R.W. Kern Center 202
vsgIA@hampshire.edu
The course is designed for advanced Division II and first-semester Division III students committed to reading and analyzing existing qualitative studies about audiences, gamers, and other media users, as well as to conceptualizing, carrying out, and documenting qualitative studies of their own. Prior to beginning individual projects/studies, we will explore: various theorizations of audiences, gamers, and other media users; the qualitative methodologies employed to study them; and results of prior studies investigating how people respond to - and make sense of - popular media forms such as television, film, advertisements, online videos, and video games. This is a rigorous, time- and labor-intensive course that requires significant independent work outside of class. Students should have completed at least one prior course in media studies or the film/photo/video program at Hampshire (with a critical component), and students should begin the course with a general sense of the issues or media texts they wish to explore in their studies.
Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research Prerequisites: At least one prior course in media studies or in the film/photo/video program. Students are expected to spend 10 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.
This course has unspecified prerequisite(s) - please see the instructor.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.