Paper III: Advanced Study Paper I Contemporary Ideologies and Media Issues

Paper Code: 
JMC-143
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00

Challenges for media : To create Informed Citizenry, Minimum Science for everyone,
Elementary education for everyone

 

 

Normative theories of Mass Communication- Authoritarian, Libertarian, Socialistic, Social Responsibility and Participatory theories.
Finding research studies related to the above mentioned theories

 

 

Theories of Mass Communication -Cultivation, Dependency , Agenda setting theory, Uses & Gratification theory.
Finding research studies related to the above mentioned theories

 

 

Contemporary issues : Environment ,health and media, Sting Operations and their validity, New aggressive face of media and it’s relevance

 

 

 

 

 

 

Representing Gender : Television Commercials, Print Advertisements, Feature Films. Representing Race : ‘Us’ and ‘Them’.
Representing ‘Real’ Events : The Press and Framing of Events, Documenting Reality

 

References: 
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  • Goffman Erwing, 1979, Gender Advertisements, Macmillan.
  • Hawkes, Terence. 1977, Structuralism and Semiotics, London: Methuen.
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  • Kumar, K. 1981, Mass Communication in India, Mumbai: Jai Publishing House.
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  • McLuhan, Marshall: Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Penguin, 1969.
  • Murphy, Robert D., Mass Communication and Human Interaction; Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston
  • Melkote, Srinivas R. 1991, Communication for Development in the Third World, Delhi: Sage.
  • Mody, Bella. 1991, Designing Messages for Development Communication, New Delhi: Sage.
  • Saunders Denys J. 1984, Educational, Visual Communication Handbook, London: Lutterworth.
  • Vijaya Somasundaram : Principles of Communication, Authorpress Global Network,2005

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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