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Do 'slasher movies' provoke real-life violence? Has television turned politics into a branch of the entertainment industry? And why did a Melbourne teenager's suburban party antics generate global media interest? This unit explores such topics via a consideration of the centrality of mass media to contemporary societies and the type of transformations these societies are presently undergoing. Students are introduced to the work of the major traditions within the sociology of the media and media studies (Marxism, technological determinism, communication models, content and discourse analysis, structuralism and semiotics, cultural studies, and postmodernism) and to key concepts in the social science study of how print, broadcasting and digital media shape everyday life in contemporary societies.
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