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2012 Courses

Media Studies

MDST 3809: NEW MEDIA IN NEW YORK: INDUSTRIES AND POLICIES [3]

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professors

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This course will introduce students to the current challenges and opportunities facing major media industry firms and institutions. The transformation to digital production and consumption has put pressure on many traditional forms of media. It has also opened up profound opportunities. Along the way, firms and public institutions have had to face new facts of classic ethical and policy issues such as privacy, copyright, and decency. this course, taught in part on-line and in part in New York City, would involve intensive seminar discussions and a series of site visits to major media industries and with major figures in media. The core assignment would be a digital-video issue briefing that would rely on the issues raised by the assigned reading and our interviews with people working in these fields. Each student would choose a major ethical issue and work in groups to produce a short digital video about how companies are dealing with challenges raised by new media.

Additional $725 fee required.

MDST 3559: GENDER, CLASS, AND RACE IN THE TEEN FILM [3]

Andrea Press, Professor

In this course we will examine a series of extremely popular teen films which form the common culture for many of the University of Virginia students. We will briefly examine the history of the teen film genre, contextualizing this in a discussion of lIadolescencell and the history of this term in American cultural discourse. We will then examine in-depth the texts of a series of the most popular, and most loved, teen films, focusing on their treatment of gender, social class, and racial difference in their depiction of teen culture in the U.S. Students will draw from their own experience in viewing these texts as they learn some of the tools of film and genre analysis, and of cultural media "effects" analysis. The course will be an intensive writing and discussion-based class.