| SUBJECT CODE |
: MCG204 |
| SUBJECT NAME |
: MASS MEDIA & SOCIETY |
| SEMESTER |
: 2 |
| CREDIT HOURS |
: 3 |
| SCHOOL |
: School of Media Studies |
| COURSE |
: Diploma / Diploma in Media and Communication |
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the course are to enable students to
1. Develop an understanding on how media and society relate to each other.
2. Learn the relevance of media and society to the success of effective media studies.
LEARNING OUTCOME
At
the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Describe the relationship between the modern mass media and society
within the current issues in the Malaysian context of social theories.
2. Assess different constructions of news, science and science fiction.
3. Engage with preferred readings subversions of dominant ideologies
and the different ways people make sense of messages.
SYNOPSIS
The
relationship between theories of society and theories of media will be
examined from a range of perspectives. Views from traditionalist to
pluralist and materialist will be operationlised through media
constructions of reality.