Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Description This module applies a multidisciplinary perspective to the topic of race and the media. The objective is to engage with theoretical, conceptual and sociopolitical debates and scholarship in the area. Emphasis will be on contextualising such literature through the examination and discussion of contemporary realities and events. Specifically, the module will focus on understanding how race and ethnicity are ‘mediated’ and the impacts of racialised representations on audiences. We explore the role played by the media in contemporary understandings of race and racism in a global context, as well as considering how minority racial identities have been empowered and disempowered as a result of the media industries. The course is interdisciplinary in nature and the lectures will draw on relevant sociological and anthropological literature in addition to communications and cultural studies approaches. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Demonstrate an understanding of key theoretical approaches and debates in the area of race and the media 2. Understand how race is ‘mediated’ 3. Apply concepts to contemporary realities and events 4. Identify the main ways in which minority racial identities have responded to racist media representations 5. Articulate the range of racially diverse media content | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Conceptualising race and defining racismUnderstanding issues of ‘difference’ and diversity in the context of nations and nationalismCreating/ producing race in the mediaPolitical economy; media plurality; The role of Public Service BroadcastingRepresentations of race in the mediaUnderstanding ‘regimes of representation’; Considering issues of ‘authenticity’ and ‘appropriation’; Race in the news mediaViewership and interpretationAudience theories and reader positions; how is race ‘read’ and received through media; responses to racist/ unrepresentative media: how do audiences/ publics empower themselvesIreland, race and the mediaConsidering race and racism in contemporary Ireland; how representative is the Irish media landscape? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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