Media Theories and Practices
Describe the media landscape of today, news, entertainment, information, and communications, etc. What is the media of today, how is it used, what are examples of it, how and where do we consume and engage in media? How does this media effect and inform the populace of the United States and our democracy and our capitalistic system? There has been a great deal of discussion of capitalism vs socialism lately, how is the tension between capitalism and socialism expressed in the media, and how did the history of the US bring us to the media we have today? Consider how a scholar who would look our modern US media through the lens of one of the following: Marxism, Postmodernism, Feminist Studies, or Ethnic Studies, as you answer the question, and describe in detail.