738G12 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1N) · Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
Media, Communication and Popular Culture
Discontinued · replaced by 738G34
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About the course
Aim
On completion of the course, the student should be able to
- apply a scientific approach to popular-cultural expressions,
- demonstrate an understanding of the interplay between media producers and media consumers,
- demonstrate an understanding of the identity-forming dimensions of popular culture,
- independently be able to reflect on and analyse popular-cultural texts by means of scientific methods.
Content
The course gives theoretical and methodological introductions to television entertainment, music and websites, media forms that both express and shape the approach and wishes of contemporary culture and social life. The course relates to concepts such as popular culture, identity and power. It addresses the audiences, fan cultures and interpretive communities that contemporary popular culture participates in creating. Also presented are tools for analysing and interpreting popular culture with culturally theoretical, media sociological and critical approaches.
- Examiner
- Christian Svensson Limsjö
- Main field of study
- Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap