Media And Society

Programme: BA Course: Media and Society Semester: V Code: XXX 531 Objectives • To introduce the students to concepts, concerns, critical debates in Media Studies • To enable students to critically perceive and engage with production, signification and negotiation of meanings in media Level of Knowledge: Working knowledge of media Module I Perspectives on Media Texts Semiotics: Signs, Codes, and Cultures Hermeneutics: Interpretation and Understanding Rhetoric: Language, Situation, Purpose Narratology: The Forms and Functions of Stories

20 Hrs

Understanding Media in Contexts 20 Hrs Asa Briggs and Peter Burke: ‘Introduction,’ A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Fiona Anderson: ‘Fashion – Style, Identity and Meaning’ Fiona Carson: ‘Feminist Debate and Fine art Practices’ Claire Pajaczkowska: ‘Issues in Feminist Design’ Richard Howell: ‘Ideology’ Marshall McLuhan. ‘Medium is the Message’ Nishant Shah: ‘Playblog: Pornography, Performance and Cyberspace’ Ashis Nandy: ‘Indian Popular Cinema as a Slum's Eye View of Politics’ Deborah Stevenson: ‘Imagining the City: Movies, Maps and Cyberspace’ Media Regulation Lawrence Liang: ‘Philosophical Foundations of Free Speech’ Lawrence Liang: ‘Hate Speech and the Philosophy of Language’ Lawrence Liang: ‘Obscenity, Decency and Morality’ Shohini Ghosh: ‘TV Censorship in India.’ Monika Mehta: ‘What Is Behind Film Censorship?’

20 Hrs

Select Bibliography Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Malden: Blackwell, 2001. Carson, Fiona and Claire Pajaczkowska. eds. Feminist Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 2003. Gripsrud, Jostein. Understanding Media Culture. London: Hodder Arnold, 2002 Howell, Richard. Visual Culture. Cambridge: Polity, 2003. Rampley, Matthew. ed. Exploring Visual Culture: Definitions, Concepts, Contexts. Edingburg: Edinburg University Press, 2005. Wayne, Mike. Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends. London: Pluto Press, 2003.