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COMS 643. Cultural Studies of News.

Credits: 3
Offered by: Art History & Communications (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.

Description

Examines how cultural studies scholars approach news, including news as a popular textual system, news as the ritual construction of national identity and its role in nation-building projects, the urban circulation of news, journalism as an interpretive culture, alternative press cultures, and the commoditization of news spectacles.

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