Media Culture Now (SMFA-0182)

Spring 2024 · SMFA 0182 · Tufts University · 4 credits · Undergraduate

An understanding of how mass media functions is necessary to enact meaningful social change. The media representation of drowned refugees; the Black Lives Matter activists; The US military recruiting from gaming industries for Gulf Wars; The US presidential elections; reality TV, etc. These images shape both our public policy and private lives. Through lectures, readings, and assignments we will challenge commercial methods of cultural production, produce work about our vernacular culture, question how these forms of cultural production and mass media have come to be a powerful means of expressing culture, which ‘frames’ our everyday lives. Non-SMFA students and MAT Art Education students will receive a letter grade.

Course codes: SMFA-0182, SMFA 0182, SMFA0182, SMFA-182, SMFA 182, SMFA182

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