SemesterFall Semester, 2020
DepartmentInternational Master's Program in International Communication Studies, First Year
Course NameCommunication Theories
InstructorWANG SUMEI
Credit3.0
Course TypeRequired
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Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule



•    Week 1 Introduction

•    Week 2 AI for good society

Paper: Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence

•    Week 3 Human-Machine Communication

Reconsidering James Carey. American Journalism 7(4):216-226.

•    Week4 encoding, decoding

Decoding Algorithm

•    Week 5 political economy

Integrated commodities in the digital economy

•    Week 6 media technologies and time

Wajcman(2019). How Silicon Valley Sets Time.

•    Week 7 fake news

Too good to be true, too good not to share: the social utility of fake news

•    Week 8 Selfie and mobile media

Paper: The Gestural Image: The Selfie, Photography Theory, and Kinesthetic Sociability

•    Week 9 domestication of media

The domestication of digital games in the lives of older adults

•    Week 10 cultural industry

Paper: Reviewing the cultural industry: from creative industries to digital platforms

•    Week 11 audience studies

N Abercrombie, BJ Longhurst /audience performance and imagination

•    Week 12 Nationalism and Racism

K-Pop nationalism: Celebrities and acting blackface in the Korean media.  Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 29:1, 2015

•    Week 13 media ecology

Media Ecology: Exploring the Metaphor to Expand the Theory

•    Week 14 Guest Speaker

•    Week 15 presentation/proposal

•    Week 16 essay writing up and consultation

•    Week 17 essay writing up and consultation

•    Week 18 essay submission



 


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Presentation 30%

Participation 30%

Term paper 40%



 


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