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    This document provides an overview of the course SOC 226: Sociology of Media offered as an elective course for the MA Sociology program at the University of Delhi. The course will examine media from a sociological perspective using key concepts and debates from media studies, cultural studies, and media sociology. It will interrogate three major sub-themes - cultural studies, public sphere, and semiotics - and how they apply to contemporary politics, society, and culture, particularly in India. Over the course, topics will include theoretical approaches to media studies, the politics and industry of media, media and globalization, and media and identity. Assessment will include tutorial essays and an annual exam.

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    This document provides an overview of the course SOC 226: Sociology of Media offered as an elective course for the MA Sociology program at the University of Delhi. The course will examine media from a sociological perspective using key concepts and debates from media studies, cultural studies, and media sociology. It will interrogate three major sub-themes - cultural studies, public sphere, and semiotics - and how they apply to contemporary politics, society, and culture, particularly in India. Over the course, topics will include theoretical approaches to media studies, the politics and industry of media, media and globalization, and media and identity. Assessment will include tutorial essays and an annual exam.

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    Course SOC 226: Sociology of Media

    Elective course for MA Sociology Part ll (MA Final)


    Department of Sociology. University of Delhi.
    J00 Marks (30% intermal evaluation through tutorial essay; 70% bascd on annual exam)

    This course will provide a close eading of some of the key theoretical concepts.
    par and debates within Media Studies. We will look at media from a sociological
    perspective, approaching mass media as a tool that aids in constructing the political realm, the
    public sphere, and subjectiviies. We will examine different traditions within the discipline/sub
    disciplines such as communication, media studies and media sociology Three major sub-themes
    will guide us throughout the course: a) Cultural studies b) Publie sphere c) Semiotics. We will
    interrogate these dominant paradigms for what thcy might offer to our contemporary political.
    social and cultural moment and in particular to readings of media in India.

    1. Introduction and Theoretical approaches to media studies


    a) Cultural studies
    b) Puslic spicre
    c) Semiotics
    2. The politics of media
    a) Media and political processes (elections, citizenship etc)
    b) Media as a supporter or watchdog of the state
    c) Media and the construction of political reality
    3. The Mcdia Industry
    a) Media as business: ownership, profits
    b) State ownership and influence
    4. Media and Globalisation
    a) Neoliberalism and its implications
    b) Transnational and diasporic visual culture
    5. Media and ldentity
    ) Construction of subjectivities
    b) Audience reception
    6. New mcdiua
    a) New media as technology
    b) New media and alternative identitics. politics
    Note: In any one year, four out of topics (2-6) will be taught.

    30/08/2022
    Introduction to the Course

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    Publ1c Spihere
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    into a Category of Bourgeois Sociery (Translated by Thomas Burger) Massachusetts:
    The MIT Press. 2 Lecture
    KHabermas, Jurgen (198la): The Theory of CommunicativeAction, Vol-l. Reason and the
    Rationalization of Society. [Translated by Thomas McCarthy], Boston: Bencon Press
    doe leadd.
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