Communication 394DI - Youth,Democracy&EnterainIndust

The entertainment industries (EI) target young people for their tremendous market force and cultural sway. How do the imperatives of market-driven media culture correspond with principles of democracy? This course will engage dialogue, reading, research, and writing oriented towards mapping the matrix between youth, the entertainment industries, and the play of democracy. How do we make sense of and become active agents in the politics, representations, political economy, and utopian possibilities of culture and the industries that have become its purveyors? This course satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.

Open to Senior and Junior Communication majors only. This course was formally numbered COMM 397SS if you have taken COMM 397SS you cannot take this class.