GB · Bachelors
MA Global Media and Communications
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Program overview
The MA Global Media and Communication is unique in that it offers a critical appraisal and critique of Western Media and Communication theories and approaches through focusing on the complex specificities of Asia Africa and the Middle East and their diasporas Drawing on the grounded expertise of staff it offers a specialised study of the global media environment in relation to Asian African and Middle Eastern societies and cultures together with rigorous training in and questioning of contemporary media and communication theory We ask what concerns and hopes the people of the regions we study have how should we address comparatively the global role of mass and digital media in contemporary politics and conflict as well as processes of exclusion inequalities development participation and empowerment By considering how where and by whom media is produced consumed and used students develop advanced knowledge and understanding of the theoretical methodological and empirical issues involved in the analysis of non-western media and communications within historical and contemporary contexts Students will address alternative ways to situate mediated articulations of agency and subjectivity in non-Western contexts through engaging with various texts challenging the hegemonic claims of mainstream Western media theory that insists the rest of the world subscribe to a narrow exclusive vision of the world
Duration: 10
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