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2015-2016 Graduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AMST 606 Studies in Popular Culture & Technology


This course focuses on changing definitions of culture and methods of cultural studies; the changing meanings of ¿folk culture,¿ ¿mass culture,¿ and ¿popular culture¿; and the changing dynamics among technology, the media, and culture. Topics for readings and discussion may include: the relations between changing technologies and the activity of audiences in shaping commercial popular culture: the social and economic context of technological innovation; the cultural imperatives of technological change.

Prerequisite(s): Graduate student in AMSTDY-MA Program

3 Credit(s)