Professors in Steinhardt's department of Media, Culture, and Communication have asked for the following spring course offerings to be shared with Draper students. If you are interested in enrolling in one of the courses below, you can contact the department directly. Please keep in mind, however, that credits earned in Steinhardt courses will count as transfer credits towards your Draper degree, and that GSAS will only allow a maximum of eight credits to be transferred. Before you enroll in one of the courses below, please contact Robert Dimit for approval at robert.dimit@nyu.edu.
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Media, Culture, and Communication
Spring 2011 Graduate Courses
See the department’s website for sample syllabi. Contact mcc.graduate@nyu.edu with questions.
E58.2030 Architecture as Media
Erica Robles
Wednesday 7:15 - 9:25 pm
Call number: 43154
This class reads architecture and the built environment through the lenses of media, communication, and culture. Through analyses of a range of spaces - from Gothic Cathedrals to suburban shopping malls to homes, factories, skyscrapers and digital cities - students will acquire a vocabulary for relating representations and practices, symbols and structures, and for identifying the ideological and aesthetic positions that produce settings for everyday life. 4 credits.
E58.2100 Seminar in Media Criticism I
Mark Crispin Miller
Monday 4:55 - 7:05 pm
Call number: 43155
Analysis of the media environment from a variety of critical perspectives. Emphasis on writing as well as reading media criticism. 4 credits.
E58.2129 New Media Research Studio
Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Tuesday 4:55 - 7:05 pm
Call number: 43471
This course is devoted to the research of new communication channels that evolved with the rise of information technology and digital connectivity. These new tools develop new practices, ethics and power relations and require us to approach them from a different angle. Since the pace of digital media adoption is constantly increasing we will try to develop a more experimental research practice, in which we will act as participating agents within the explored new media environments. In that sense students should expect to be ‘embedded' and ‘report from' deep within social networking sites, multi-player online immersive environments, the blogosphere, the open source movement, internet based media art, cell phone networks, and more. The practice would resemble field journalism and will encounter the similar anthropological conflicts of the researcher's role in its subject of research. Projects will be executed both in groups and individually and will be using an assortment of collaborative web tools to conduct and document the research online. In addition to the individual researches each week will feature a theme and will be discussed through assigned reading, listening and viewing materials. 4 credits.
E58.2140 Issues in Organizational Communication
Deborah Borisoff
Wednesday 4:55 - 7:05 pm
Call number: 43156
Students examine major concepts and issues related to organizational communication including: 1) types of organizational cultures; 2) dimensions of organizational entry (e.g. the interview process); assimilation (e.g., fitting in); and factors that influence this process (e.g., gender, culture, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation; 3) examination of how employees and work are valued; 4) transformations in leadership (e.g., how it is defined; enacted); 5) diverse channels of communication (e.g., face-to-face; working in teams; the impact of technology; 6) effective strategies for dealing with conflict in organizational settings (e.g., communication strategies; work/life challenges). 4 credits
E58.2165 Transnational Communities and Media Cultures
Radha Hegde
Monday 2:00 - 4:10 pm
Call number: 43472
This course examines the emergence of transnational communities, recent patterns of migration, and the role of media forms and practices in redefining culture and national belonging. We will explore how media practices define culture and identity for diasporic groups within the landscape of global cities. What role do media play in the (re)imagining of cultural politics, nationalism, and everyday life in the context of global relocations? How do technology and media enable new configurations of cultural resistance and identification within (and between) different immigrant groups? What does this mean in terms of negotiating the global and local in various aspects of immigrant lives? 4 credits.
E58.2184 Comparative Media Systems
Rodney Benson
Tuesday 4:55 - 7:05 pm
Call number: 40827
How are news media similar or different around the world? Beyond the personal idiosyncrasies of individual journalists and media owners, which factors play the greatest role in shaping "national news cultures": professional values and traditions, level and type of commercialism, government regulations, bureaucratic pressures or organizational dynamics, and/or audiences? Too much of our media criticism proceeds from hunches and assumptions, rather than real evidence, for the simple reason that it limits itself to a single national context (and often a single time period). International comparative research allows us to "see" in new ways, test existing theories, and develop new ones. This course offers a conceptual and methodological guide (drawing on theories of Habermas, Bourdieu, Castells, and the latest work in the sociologies of culture, news, and globalization) to mapping the world's increasingly complex and inter-connected media environments. After a general consideration of the factors that structure news media systems and the roles that media play in democratic societies, the course incorporates (1) a survey of comparative methodologies: ethnography, in-depth interviewing, surveys, discourse and image analyses, etc., and (2) national, trans-national, and comparative case studies, representing the major types of Western European journalistic "models" as well as some important non-European variants. 4 credits.
E58.2200 Media Events and Spectacle
Salvatore Fallica
Wednesday 7:15 - 9:25 pm
Call number: 40828
The focus of this course is the analysis of our contemporary image- based mass culture. The mass mind is a metaphor that describes the various sources that have produced these artifacts of contemporary culture. So, the "what" of the mass mind is located in and around the culture industries that develop, produce and distribute the images, narratives, sounds and events that create the fabric of everyday life. Two major questions dominate the semester: How have we tried to understand this mass culture in the past? And, how do modern scholars try to explain this culture today? In past versions of this course we have studied the sitcom and the various sub-genres of television including advertising. We have studied the Superbowl and other forms of media events, standup comedy, talk show culture, nineteenth and twentieth century minstrelsy, men's and women's magazine culture, Shakespeare in popular culture, and, of course, contemporary music - from Bing Crosby to Ludacris.
Some possible texts include: Philip Auslander, 1999. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. New York: Routledge; Nick Couldry, 2003. Media Rituals: A Critical Approach. New York: Routledge; Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, 1992. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; Joli Jensen, 2002. Is Art Good for Us? Beliefs About High Culture in American Life. New York, Rowman & Littlefield; McNair, Brian. 2002. Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratization of Desire. New York, Routledge; Susan Murray and Laurie Ouellette, 2004. Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. New York, New York University Press. 4 credits.
E58.2201 Mediating the Biopolitical Body
Allen Feldman
Monday 4:55 - 7:05 pm
Call number: 43157
This seminar will engage the political philosophy and media ethnography of human and nonhuman bodies. We will explore the body and animality as political media through Foucault, Derrida, Agamben, Esposito, Lacan, Hegel, Heidegger, Arendt and Merleau-Ponty. Today's wars on terror, refugees, migrant labor, minorities and the immune compromised are campaigns of inhumanization that condition what counts and does not count as human through inoculating images of humanity's alters, and antagonists; all those bodies which lack humanity and signify the human in that lack. Emblematic visions of the monstrous, grotesque and disfigured do not mask and distort a determining political reality lying behind such images but are in themselves formative and structuring forces by which an order of bodies-human and unhuman-- is crafted in acts of political speciation. The political is today poised between a sovereign humanitas and a bestial, monstrous and creaturely inhumanitas comprised of communicating, excommunicated and communicable bodies. Is animality the negated and yet necessary staging ground of the political? Is the creaturely the inadequate name for what cannot be mastered by the anthropological machine? Is biopower condemned to visualizing its exception and what exceeds it as bestial life? The animal/ human faultline in Western metaphysical thought and practice can be remapped as zoopolitics where animality as political species navigates times and spaces of violent exposure, disappearance and abandonment but where animal embodiment is also a zoo-anarchism that trespasses across the thresholds of anthropologizing biopower. 4 credits.
E58.2286 Young People and Media Cultures
Joellen Fisherkeller
Tuesday 4:55 - 7:05 pm
Call number: 40833
What roles do popular media play in society and culture, and in particular the experiences, thinking and values of young people? How should we address the issues raised by the contemporary communication environment, and by the reality of young people's interactions with popular media? In this course, we will consider these questions. We will focus on debates and issues raised by various media environments that now characterize contemporary existence and young people's growth and experiences. Most importantly, we will investigate how young people actually use, value, and find meaning in multiple media in different social contexts, and discuss the social, cultural, and political implications of these situations. Finally, we will propose some ways to deal with the issues raised by the course.
Readings include: Buckingham, David. After the Death of Childhood: Growing up in the Age of Electronic Media (Polity Press, 2000); Fisherkeller, JoEllen Growing Up with Television: Everyday Learning among Young Adolescents (Temple University Press, 2002); Packet of Readings that focus on children and youth in media cultures. 4 credits.
E58.2304 Global Media and International Law
Ted Magder
Tuesday 2:00 - 4:10 pm
Call number: 43329
This course examines the history and role of international law and international regulatory instruments as they pertain to global media governance. It provides an historical overview of the various institutions and actors involved in global media governance, and assesses the various principles and practices that constitute the regime of global media governance, including the regulation of broadcasting, telecommunications, the Internet, and trade in media products. Students will undertake original research in a selected area of global media governance with careful attention to original documents in the field. 4 credits.
E58.2310 Sound Studies
Martin Scherzinger
Tuesday 7:15 - 9:25 pm
Call number: 43160
This course examines central themes in the emerging field of "Sound Studies". We explore a range of histories, archaeologies and ethnographies of sound and listening, as it intersects with topics in media studies, metaphysics, science and technology studies, political economy and musicology. How has our experience of sound changed as we move from the piano to the personal computer, from the phonoautograph to the mp3? How have political, commercial, and cultural forces shaped what we are able to listen to, and how we listen to it? Finally, how have performers, physiologists, architects, acousticians, engineers and philosophers worked to understand this radical transformation of the senses? 4 credits.
E58.2382 Topics in Globalization: International Development
Helga Tawil-Souri
Wednesday 2:00 - 4:10 pm
Call number: 43202
This course introduces students to theoretical foundations in historical and contemporary issues in communication and international development. Topics include state-building, modernization, dependency and globalization, as they concern the ‘Third World.'
Part One of the course focuses on mainstream development, its proponents (such as the UN, the World Bank and international non-profit organizations) and its application and practice. Part Two will delve into the critiques of development and its connections to longer historical, political and economic inequalities, such as imperialism, colonialism and globalization. In Part Three, each class will be devoted to a particular topic or problem and relevant case studies from they key regions (Latin America/Carribean; Africa; Middle East; Asia; "The Fourth World") that students will present on.
This is an inter-disciplinary course that draws on readings in political science, economics, history, sociology, communications and media research, and public policy. Topics of discussion are international in scope, and encourage cross-linkages between different theoretical concepts and geographical locations. Keeping up with global affairs, gaining familiarity with economic terms, looking up historical events, etc. are of utmost importance. 4 credits.
E58.2405 Topics in Visual and Cultural Studies: Communism and the Cold War
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Thursday 2:00 - 4:10 pm
Call number: 43410
In the era of the permanent memorial, it is noticeable that Communism and the Cold War are being increasingly marginalized in accounts of present-day crises. This class offers a counterpoint by examining the legacies of these experiences in visual and cultural studies. It suggests a different history of the present than is usually told, with particular regard to visuality in film, art and performance. Each participant will undertake a research project using materials in the Tamiment Library (and elsewhere if needed) and will present the results in a mini-conference at the end of the semester. 4 credits.
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