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CMM5112 Media and Social Issues
SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND ARTS
Credit Points: 20
 
Description:
This unit examines the relationship between the media and a specific social issue of contemporary importance. In particular, it will provide students with a framework within which to consider the representation and reportage by the media of an issue of their own choice, and audiences’ consumption of the resulting narratives. Students will examine the relationship between the media and (e.g.) particular community attitudes, values, beliefs or practices relating to an issue within one of the following domains: law and order, ‘the family’, local or global ecology, sexual identity, consumer rights, (alternative) healthcare, gene technologies, traditional/New Age spiritualities, new communication technologies, immigration and refugee policies, censorship and privacy, gender roles, and so on. Students will explore future directions and develop proposed policy outcomes, where appropriate.

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Last Updated - Higher Education: 15/03/2014 VET: 14/05/2014