AP/COMN3770 3.0 M: Global Youth Cultures
Offered by: COMN
Session
Winter 2022
Term
W
Format
SEMR
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
The aim of this course is to provide students with an overview of the critical debates and issues surrounding youth media culture in a transnational context. This course will trace the impact of the transnational mobility and ubiquity of media such as film, television, music, mobile technologies, video games and the internet, on the proliferation of global youth cultures. The course will explore the emergence of complex forms of hybrid cultures and identities that increasingly occur amongst young people throughout the world. At the basis of the course will be a critical analysis of the construction of youth including the multiple, diverse constructions across a range of cultures.
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