SCRN2000
10 units
2000 level
Course handbook
Description
Media in Transition interrogates media industries, organisations, and practices in recent years, and how these relate to changing media forms, content, and modes of consumption. The course focuses on a variety of media, including newsmedia, television, film, and the online world, taking in different local, national, and global contexts. Focusing on the rapidly changing nature of contemporary media across production, distribution, and reception, the course explores how government and regulation, different commercial practices, changing technologies, economic developments, and evolving audience behaviour influence the form and content of media we consume. Students will be able to select particular media industries or forms to investigate and analyse. Such focused research will further our understanding of present-day media, its immediate past, and likely future.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 1 - 2023.
Replacing course(s)
This course replaces the following course(s): FMCS2000. Students who have successfully completed FMCS2000 are not eligible to enrol in SCRN2000.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of how the media operates on local, national, and global levels.
2. Discuss key issues surrounding contemporary media structures and practices.
3. Critically analyse theoretical discussion of media structures and practices.
4. Apply and analyse the principles of media practice to an independent research report.
Content
Course topics may include:
- Australian newsmedia
- Case studies of particular media organisations in their specific settings
- Different national film and television industries
- Questions of media ownership, media regulation and control
- The relationship between 'old' and 'new' media
- The production and regulation of children's media
- The media and social change
- Media production and labour
- Media industries and ideology
- The political economy of media
- Consideration of the tension between culture and commerce in the media
Requisite
This course replaces FMCS2000. If you have successfully completed FMCS2000 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
40 units at 1000 level
Assessment items
Quiz: Online Quizzes
Report: Industry Research Report
Written Assignment: Annotated Bibliography
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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