FS10050 Media and Globalisation: Places, Cultures and Identities in a Connected World

Academic Year 2024/2025

What role do media (film, television, digital) play in shaping our ideas about the world? How do diverse audiences use global media in everyday life to negotiate issues of social and cultural identity? How do we understand and work with concepts like cosmopolitanism and hybridity?

Through an exploration of the complex and contradictory relationships between the global, local, regional, and national, this module will focus on the key issues and scholarly debates in the field of global media studies. We will explore a broad range of media as our case studies to understand the relationship between location, culture, and identity. This course aims to equip students with a broad-ranging and comparative understanding of the many ways in which media are produced, consumed, distributed, and circulated across the globe and their impact on our imaginations of a global world.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Reflect and analyze key theoretical debates in global media studies.
Engage productively with a wide range of media across national, local, regional contexts.
Demonstrate a critical understand of how media industries operate globally.
Critically engage with how media constructs national, social, and cultural identities globally.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

10
Small Group

10
Practical

20
Autonomous Student Learning

60
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This is a lecture module with accompanying film screenings and tutorials. Tutorials may include discussion, group work, or other in-class activities. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (Take-Home): A take home exam that students will need to return in 48 hours. It will consist of two 750 word responses. Week 12 Graded No

50

 No
Quizzes/Short Exercises: Argument mapping exercise. More details will be provided in class. Week 5, Week 8 Graded No

30

 No
Group Work Assignment: Students will be divided into small groups for in-person presentations during workshops. Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Graded No

20

 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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Name Role
Subhashini Goda Venkataramani Tutor
Mr Eoin O'Gaora Tutor