Handbook

Note: The course code for this course was previously ARTS2092

Although media have historically been framed and regulated nationally, today media is increasingly produced, distributed, and consumed transnationally. Knowing the role played by international markets and global issues in shaping the media is vital to your success as a professional communicator. In this course, you will examine the history of international trade flows in audio-visual goods and services and explore how these have changed through global trends toward regionalisation, media contraflow, and the transnational production and distribution of media. You will critically reflect on emerging forms of culture and identity based on the experience of cosmopolitanism, hybridity and diaspora, and consider how they influence professional media practices in journalism, media for development and public communication. This course will give you a thorough understanding of the ways media contribute to the experience of transnational forms of identity that will pave the way for further study in transnational media in the Asia-Pacific in the level 3 course MDIA3092.