Film and Media Studies 271 - Understanding Media Industries

Media studies approach media industries as sites of power struggles in which hierarchies of power in the modern world are reproduced. This course will explore these power struggles and the scholars’ on-going attempts to understand them by examining the economic, political and socio- cultural implications of industrialized media ecosystem. The aim is to understand the past and the present of this industrial system and to survey the future possibilities. In this context, we will study theoretical approaches and research examples from the field of media industries studies to analyze the production, distribution and consumption processes. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)