Media Identities: Who we are and how we feel
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| CULT2011 | Cultural, Media and Visual Studies | 2 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- CULT2011
- School
- Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
- Level
- 2
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module develops critical modes of attention to the mediation of identity. On our screens and in our headphones we shape and re-shape our selves. Media do not reflect identities but play an active role in bringing them into being. This module takes up the question of 'identity politics', enhancing students' knowledge and understanding of the key identity categories that have been advanced and problematized by media scholars, such as gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, national, regional and local belonging, age, ability and disability, and so on. The module also interrogates the mediated forms which these identities take, considering the politics of looking and visual culture, the politics of hearing and auditory culture, as well as the politics of affect, emotions and embodiment. The module encourages historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
A single coursework assessment will replace all failed assessment components at the reassessment stage.
Target Students
Only available to students in International Media andCommunication Studies, Film and Television Studies, History of Art, Liberal Arts and Exchange students.
Classes
- One 1-hour seminar each week for 11 weeks
- One 2-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks
The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies operates an attendance policy. The details of this policy can be found in the student handbook on Workspace and in module handbooks. Weekly lecture and fortnightly seminar.
Assessment
- 100% Coursework: Coursework - 3,000 words portfolio of written work and equivalent
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
To familiarize students with media and cultural theories onidentity. To encourage students to make politicized decisions regarding the appropriateness of particular theoretical approaches to media identities. To enable students to analyse the mediation of identity in visual and auditory contexts.Learning Outcomes
a) Knowledge and Understanding: This module will provide students with:
a broad knowledge of identity studies;
theoretical techniques for the analysis of the mediation of identity;
knowledge of the forms taken by mediated identities in culture;
an appreciation of the processes by which power/ideology enters into the process of identity formation.
b) Intellectual Skills: This module will encourage:
the ability to research, gather information and analyse events, situations, and their representations;
critical awareness of the cultural politics of identity;
reflection upon the limits of particular arguments and methodological approaches.
c) Transferable (key) Skills: This module will enhance transferable skills such as:
retrieving, presenting and communicating complex information clearly in oral and written forms;
working effectively in groups exercising initiative, self-discipline and sensitivity to others;
reflecting upon one’s own cultural commitments and practices in relation to those of others and appreciating the ethical and political basis of such considerations;
planning and organization skills, including working to deadline and managing resources.