What is this JOUR 310 about?

Popular or mass culture

• Mediated
• Entertaining
• Widely disseminated

Understanding culture

• General forms and classifications
• Deconstruction
• Semiotics
• Media effects

Ethical and legal issues

• Legal and cultural institutions
• Judgment of audiences, content creators and distributors
• Who owns what?

Technological impact & history

• Evolution of culture
• How has technology affected culture?

People

• Group protrayals
• Personal associations
• Creators and critics