Media Studies

This course deals with the problems and opportunities of the application of genre based typologies in media content analyses. The visual electronic media genres possess collective identity which is recognized by both the content producers and audiences relatively equally. This overtime changing collective identity can be captured in the purposes of the media text, the different form related characteristics and in the relationship between the given media text and the reality. What are the common and different characteristics of a news item, a documentary, a talent show, a propaganda video or a streaming drama, that is what we will be talking about.