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Comm/Sp Com 308-1 This course is an advance introduction to issues, concepts, and forms of analysis in media and cultural studies. Each semester the course focuses on a specific topic. This semester the course will examine the changing relation of media and other technologies to house and home in the U.S. It will consider the domestic sphere as concept (represented and defined through media such as television) and as a setting where various media are installed and engaged. Other issues to be considered include concepts and practices of (domestic) labor and leisure, changing conceptions and relations of the public and private sphere, concepts of Home, the regulation of media and domestic space, the regulation of privacy, the changing relation of household media to one another and to other domestic appliances, the relation of media to architecture, lawn and garden, interior design, and furnishings, the relation between media and suburbanization, the relation between media and urban “gentrification,” the home as a site of citizenship, the home as a site of consumption, and the formation of social relations through media technologies from the home. (For a longer course description contact Prof. Hay at j-hay@uiuc.edu.) |