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AKU IR, eCommons
eCommons@AKU is a digital archive offering access to the research, scholarly output and publications of the Aga Khan University. The objective is to preserve, promote and provide access to the University's research and publications under one umbrella, in full text wherever possible.
Course Overview
This course navigates multiple paradigms, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual vocabularies in media and communications theory. It hopes to stimulate engaged acts of daily media practice. We shall explore competing and overlapping schools of media and communication including the conflict or propaganda model, Toronto “media ecology” School, British “encoding/decoding” model, and many others. This course operates in partnership with the McLuhan Institute (formerly known as the Centre for Culture and Technology of the University of Toronto) in its mission to promote advanced and engaged media literacy.
Course Objectives
The course objectives are :
- Upon successful participation in the course, students should be better capable of:
- Demonstrating a comprehensive conceptual and theoretical knowledge of the field of media studies, including its major schools/paradigms, and various approaches or techniques for engaging with media objects;
- Engaging in practical media work that demonstrates a theoretically informed approach;
- Highlighting key themes and debates in the field;
- Discussing the historical overview of the discipline and field of media studies;
- Demonstrating the particular effects of media objects upon the sensibilities of social groups through immersive engagement with video games, blogs/wikis/social media, film, painting, photography, and so on.
- Situating media studies within wider discussions of modernity, popular culture, and mass society.
Course Convenor: Dr. Duane Rousselle
Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Research
Dr Duane Rousselle is a Canadian Sociologist and Psychoanalyst known for his work in continental philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and political theory. He has written extensively on psychoanalysis, anarchism, and critical theory, contributing to contemporary debates in these fields. Rousselle has also authored and edited several books exploring the intersections of philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis.
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