Fall 2021  |  AMES 5720 Section 002: Topics in Southeast Asian Culture -- Media Ecologies (35040)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
Mon 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Appleby Hall 128
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 17 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Selected topics in Southeast Asian culture. Topics specified in the Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?x500=palitac&term=1219
Class Description:
This course will explore how our understanding of particular geo-political contexts such as Southeast Asia, South Asia, East Asia and the Middle East could be reimagined through their media ecologies and their transformative and transnational notions of media in this new habitat. Thus, this course is centered around this main question: In what ways can a turn to media and its ever-changing meanings and itineraries provide an epistemological shift to critically reconfigure how we approach a region or an area-focused research? Rather than apply "media theory" to any of these regions, the course will push us to reexamine media objects and events within a globalized mediasphere. We will therefore broaden the archive of our own research and interest by developing critical frameworks to attend to variable notions of media and to media activities emerging from different ecologies that challenge theoretical orthodoxies of media theory from the global north. We will start with the relationship between nationalism and media by approaching the nation-state as the main actor in the formation of media industries and the promotion of a public sphere through mass media. We will then reflect on alternative media flows and popular modes of media participation beyond the purview of the state. This capacious reconceptualization of media will open a window onto key issues such as migration crisis; labor exploitation; waste, dump, and pollution; racial and religious suppression; and economic inequalities in the global south that the course will henceforth explore. Topics selected for the course will not only allow us to visit established and recent methodologies deployed to study media in the regions, but also refract our understanding of each region through the terms of the global south.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Students interested in media theory and the Global South.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35040/1219
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 April 2021

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