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PSY-714 Media, Technology, and Social Identities

4 semester credits
Explore the relationship between mediated forms of communication, emerging technologies, and social identities. Critically examine how media and technology both represent and construct social categories such as race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and nationality. Demonstrate how media impacts attitudes about identities and relates to processes such as perception, social learning, stereotyping, and discrimination.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
  • Identify the relationship between media and intersectional identities.
  • Demonstrate understanding of the role media processes play in constructing identity, belonging, inclusion, and exclusion.
  • Apply constructs such as stereotyping and representation in analysis of real-world media portrayals of identities.
  • Reflect critically on your own understanding and assumptions about identity and difference, including how media may impact them.



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