https://solvonauts.org/%3Faction%3Drss_search%26term%3Dpolitical+beliefs RSS Feed for political beliefs Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens the course defines media broadly as including oral print theatrical photographic broadcast cinematic and digital cultural forms and practices The course looks at the nature of mediated communication the functions of media the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media s place in society Over the course of the semester we explore different theoretical perspectives on the role and power of media in society in influencing our social values political beliefs identities Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens the course defines media broadly as including oral print theatrical photographic broadcast cinematic and digital cultural forms and practices The course looks at the nature of mediated communication the functions of media the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media s place in society Over the course of the semester we explore different theoretical perspectives on the role and power of media in society in influencing our social values political beliefs identities http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-015-introduction-to-media-studies-fall-2003 http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-015-introduction-to-media-studies-fall-2003 Introduction to Media Studies is designed for students who have grown up in a rapidly changing global multimedia environment and want to become more literate and critical consumers and producers of culture Through an interdisciplinary comparative and historical lens the course defines media broadly as including oral print theatrical photographic broadcast cinematic and digital cultural forms and practices The course looks at the nature of mediated communication the functions of media the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media s place in society Over the course of the semester we explore different theoretical perspectives on the role and power of media in society in influencing our social values political beliefs identities https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-015-introduction-to-media-studies-fall-2003 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/literature/21l-015-introduction-to-media-studies-fall-2003 This course takes rhetoric as a system for designing meaning that helps us understand complex situations and ideas enlighten and persuade others to act and thus reshape our world We ll study rhetoric systematically and empirically both analyzing how it works on us as readers and testing how we can make informed rhetorical choices as we design our own texts https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/21w-016-writing-and-rhetoric-designing-meaning-fall-2016 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/comparative-media-studies-writing/21w-016-writing-and-rhetoric-designing-meaning-fall-2016