Media Industry Seminar

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: Explain how different types of media affecting different job descriptions and management styles in mass media industries; Describe political-economy power of mass media in a society; Describe their own preference and vision for their future career in mass media.

Topics

This course provides holistic fundamental aspects of media industries, and their significance to the formation of social-political-cultural conditions, focusing on different topics such as debates between ideals and commerce, information and entertainment, the role of media as public sphere, management styles, active audience, and many other mass media related issues. The course takes students to different situations of media industries by exposing them to an open for public lecture by leading figures in each medium and/or job descriptions, followed by discussions.

Pre-requisite: None