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Jour465 Mass Communication and Popular Culture

Study of the social, political and economic influences that shape popular culture and its effects on audiences. Examines media's role as storytellers across media platforms that deliver popular culture in the emergent global digital culture. Particular emphasis on applying critical thinking, research and writing skills to analyze media policies and practices and on developing strategies that empower consumers of popular culture in the media marketplace.

Students will apply media literacy skills and strategies to examine the dynamics of American popular culture across generations and to analyze the tipping point of cultural icons, artifacts, innovations and trends. Topics focus on entertainment, fashion, language, health, sports, leisure, work, family, politics, social media and other pop culture phenomena.  

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Learning Objectives

Overall Learning Goal: Students will become digital and media literate consumers and creators of popular culture with the ability to think critically about the role it plays in their personal lives, American society, and the global world in which they live.

  • Develop digital and media literacy skills and strategies to analyze and evaluate the representation, production, and consumption of popular culture images, icons, artifacts, trends, and social behaviors.
  • Apply media theories and critical perspectives to analyze the function and effects of popular culture in order to better understand the world in which we live, learn, work, play and communicate.
  • Identify the social, political, and economic influences that shape American popular culture and ways it is used for activism in a participatory digital democracy.
  • Assess personal popular culture taste and reflect on its influence in shaping cultural and social identity.
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