Overview

This unit exposes students to critical debate over media theory by encouraging them to engage with the ideas of key media scholars. Students will consider how these ideas and theories may be applied to contemporary concerns.

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Critically engage with key media theories
  • Explain the strengths and limitations of key approaches, in order to apply the relevant concepts
  • Interrogate and adopt historical perspectives on media theory that recognise the continuities between early scholarship and contemporary turns
  • Utilise media theories to develop solutions to contemporary issues through research and within the context of the discipline

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Lecture		2.00 12 weeks 24
On-campus
Class		1.00 12 weeks 12
Specified Activities
Various		3.00 12 weeks 36
Unspecified Activities
Various		6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
AssessmentIndividual 20% 1,2,3,4 
Research ProjectIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4 
Research ProposalIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4 

Content

  • Research frameworks and methodologies of media
  • big data and data analytics in social research
  • the nature of research proposals
  • Surveillance media
  • Locative media
  • Research ethics
  • Affect Theory
  • Materiality and media
  • Indigenous media
  • Media, time and death

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.