COMM2270 · Communication
Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences
This course may be used to satisfy one of four electives required within the Communication major.This class invites you to think about the media as a cocktail of affects and emotions. We will think with several social, cultural, and media theorists to understand how the media produce, magnify, and sell various affects and emotions. And we will discuss how media affects are often manufactured and experienced in contradictory forms, such as guilty pleasure, cuteness, and anti-fandom. This course will explore a wide range of media, including news, film, television, and digital culture, paying particular attention to how media affects signify, reinforce, or subvert power structures.
Course experience
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Organization
4.2 / 5
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Challenge
4.1 / 5
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Attendance
4.1 / 5
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Assignments
4.0 / 5
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Weekly effort
~3
hours per week
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Spring 2024
1 section