Media Industries

MDA60008 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn

Duration

  • One Semester or equivalent

Contact hours

  • 36 hours Face to Face + Blended

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

Aims and objectives

This unit introduces students to the functions and roles of various Media Industries at a time of significant disruption and dynamism. By focussing on industry disruption through technological, political, social and cultural change, the unit examines the ways new developments in media production and practice both respond to, and initiate, change. Students will be given the opportunity to critically analyse these changes and apply them to an innovative media product.

Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
 
1. Critically analyse the causes and effects of technological, economic, social and cultural disruption in both traditional and new media industries;
2. Examine and compare the relationship between industry change and development of new communication, production and labour practices;
3. Apply appropriate critical theories to a media product that effectively respond to disruption in media institutions, platforms, and organisations.