Media Industries
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:
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.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Lecture | 1 | 12 | 12 |
On-Campus Class (tutorial) | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 4.1 | 12 | 50 |
Unspecified Activities Readings | 5 | 12 | 60 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Research Folio | Individual | 40% | 2,3 |
Online Discussion Threads | Group | 30% | 1,2,3 |
Oral Presentation | Group | 30% | 1,2,3 |
Content
- The Media Industries in Australia – understanding both research and industry prespectives
- Media Industries across the disciplines – news, entertainment, technology and infrastructure
- Opportunities in traditional and emerging media industries – matching your portfolio to industry
- Presenting research and practice – oral and verbal communical skills
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials/and or textbooks will be made available in the unit outline