Media and film studies

Analysing Media: Objects, Networks, Platforms

Module code: P4130
Level 4
30 credits in spring semester
Teaching method: Lecture, Seminar, Workshop
Assessment modes: Portfolio, Media

On this module, you’ll develop essential media analysis skills.

Each week you’ll consider different media objects from a range of contexts and industries (for example a piece of code, an AI-generated text, a digital photograph, a podcast, a TV show, a social media post, a videogame) to understand the ways in which such media objects can be:

• interpreted
• socio-technically structured
• assessed.

This module addresses the concept of ‘mediation’ through instances from the contemporary world and direct engagement with media environments. You’ll have the chance to analyse and engage with a media object of your choice.

Module learning outcomes

• Analyse media objects from a wide range of contemporary contexts
• Differentiate approaches to media analysis
• Evaluate forms of mediation
• Structure and develop an argument in clear prose and demonstrate command of a broad range of critical vocabulary and critical concepts
• Apply concepts of media analysis to real-world examples