Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours
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Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor
Description: Examines the global production, transmission, and consumption of mass media in diverse national and transnational contexts. Includes debates over the power of media; construction of knowledge of others; affective responses to images of violence; practices of self-representation; and the ways in which consumers accept, reject and negotiate media messages.