Media Tastes and Values - MEFT3100

 
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of English, Media and Performing Arts
 
 
Course Outline: http://media.arts.unsw.edu.au//
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 72 units of credit
 
 
Excluded: MDCM2101, SOCA3105, SOCA3704, SOCA3705
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


How do we become enchanted by media and what is the nature of this enchantment? What is happening to the self when we swoon, drift into the story, recoil, laugh, jump out of our skins, weep? Investigates valuing as a dynamic relation, as exchange and communication, rather than intrinsic quality. Explores how our tastes for particular media are formed and the various economic, institutional and discursive contingencies that shape these tastes. Also considers how our media tastes and values mark us, how they generate particular styles of life, identities and ethical systems.