GLO101

041472

From cave paintings to the printing press and transnational digital media, humans with their \"awareness instinct\" have always sought accurate information upon which to make sense of their world and base their decisions and actions. This survey course explores the foundations and contemporary role of types of professional and citizen media and their interaction with culture, societies, economics and politics. This course focuses on the processes journalists employ worldwide to gather, produce and disseminate information to various publics around the world. Through films, podcasts, lectures, and readings, students will come to understand the special position that news media hold in many societies and will learn to navigate the complex world of competing narratives, filter bubbles, disinformation campaigns and talking heads, to become critical and engaged consumers of information in a global media environment.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate