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This course will provide an overview of media law, including constitutional, regulatory and statutory schemes. The course will be organized into thematic sections, described more fully below, and discussion […]

This course will examine key ethical issues confronting new media professionals today. In addition to a basic introduction to ethics and communication, the course will examine new thorny issues, which have […]

All industries need relevant market-related data in order to succeed, but the ability to access timely and credible market data is particularly critical for those in the rapidly changing and evolving media […]

In general media are not thought of philosophically; we are more likely to simply use media than to reflect on them. Although media are rarely understood to present philosophical problems, throughout the ages […]

The course is designed to introduce you to the business end of the media industry, and to equip you with skills that you will find useful, wherever your career in media may take you. In this course, you will […]

Driven by the confluence of new technologies, creative ingenuity, increasing population and literacy, availability of capital and government policies, the media have become the most influential and largest […]

This seminar explores creative DIY (do-it-yourself) cultures of hacking, tinkering, and inventive practices from crafts and electronics to digital media production, networked design collaboration, and […]

This course explores participatory and qualitative approaches to designing and conducting social inquiry and behavioral research. The class focuses on applying such approaches to understanding the role of […]

“There has been more information produced in the last 30 years than during the previous 5000.” We have all heard some variation on this maxim. As U.S. publishers add 250,000 printed books and close to 300,000 […]

This seminar will examine the concept of mediation from the vantage point of philosophy. In classical thought, medius is that which is in the middle or in between, that which is intermediate, either by nature […]

By focusing on directing and screenwriting, we connect project conceptualization, film aesthetics, script-breakdowns, blocking and shot-coverage to the language of editing. We examine a variety of approaches […]

The aesthetics of editing -the choice of images, their timing and sequence- is at the center of film and video production. This course will focus on the analysis of structure and styles of editing of both […]

The documentary is arguably the most challenging and influential form of film and video. It touches, informs, and sometimes outrages millions of viewers seeking facts and insights in a complex world. This […]

Political communication can include any media or communication exchange having to do with the allocation of power and resources. In this seminar we will look at the nature and role of political communication […]

While sounds have been explored by both listeners and au(di)teurs for millennia, it is only within the last 130 years that mediated technologies —the phone in 1876, the phonograph in 1877, popular radio […]

Whether viewed as high art, subversive activity or popular entertainment, film attracts a broad range of articulate critics. Today film criticism is more varied in its approaches than ever during the […]

The course will examine the entire phenomenon of film music and the technical, artistic, aesthetic, psychological, and political problems it poses. As an ongoing process, we will track the evolution of film […]

What is the society that a work of art makes possible? What sort of community does it help us to realize? This seminar and discussion series seeks to explore the social dimensions of performance through the […]

Cultural institutions such as art, science and natural history museums, historical societies, and performance venues often value the importance of the authentic, original object or first-hand experience of […]

This course explores the impact and functioning of television in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America; that is, the areas of the world that do not share the American model. While it discusses concepts such […]