媒体对你意味着什么?每天你怎么使用/消费媒体?媒体在你的日常学习和生活中有什么影响?在课程的开始阶段,我们
先梳理从印刷时代到当下的数字时代媒体的历时性、技术性的发展。在梳理之后,我们将进一步探索在不同的社会生态,
不同的历史时期,各种媒体(如报纸、广播、电视、互联网、社交媒体)在公共和个人生活中扮演的重要角色。尤其是,
我们尝试着去理解不同形态的媒体如何呈现(再现)以及处理包括如身份、安全、流动、亲密、健康等在内的社会议题。
在数字媒体已经成为我们生活中不可分割的一部分的今天,我们也会将更多的注意力放在数字媒体的发展,以及对它带来
的影响的思考和讨论上。通过整个课程,我们旨在介绍一些关键概念的同时,提供就媒体与社会变迁的互动,也就是,媒
体与社会变迁如何互相形塑的见解。
What does media mean to you? How do you use/consume media on your daily basis? What impact does media have on
your study and life? In this course, we will first explore the cycle of media, that is, the historical development of
communication technology from the print to the current digital age. After the exploration, we will move on to find out the
important roles that a range of mediums (such as, the press, radio, television, the internet, social media) have played in
both public and private lives at different historical stages and in different societies. In particular, we attempt to
understand how different forms of media represent and engage with a variety of social issues including such as identity,
security, mobility, intimacy, and health. As digital media has become an inseparable part of our life in the contemporary
era, we will give more attention to its development, the current ideas and discussions on its implications. Over the entire
course, we aim to introduce a number of key conceptions and offer some insights into the interaction between media and
social changes, that is, how media shapes and is shaped by social changes.
This course welcomes any undergraduate student who has an interest in media and communication in general. The
course is expected to produce three outcomes. Firstly, it will help students to obtain a historical sense about the
development of media in our societies. Secondly, it will enable students to develop a broad understanding vis-à-vis the
relationship between media and the society it is situated in. Thirdly, it will help students to cultivate some independent
and critical thinking in their everyday media consumption. Additionally, this course will seek to equip students with some
basic skills in academic research, presentation and writing.
本课程向对媒体和传播有兴趣的任何专业背景的本科生开放。这门课程希望能够产生三种结果。第一,普及媒体发展的基
本历史知识,帮助学生获得对媒体和传播变迁的历史性的认识;第二,能够让学生就媒体和社会的关系有比较通盘的理
解。第三,培养学生对日常生活中的媒体消费形成独立性和批判性的思考。此外,希望这门课程能够训练学生在学术研
究、展示和写作方面的一些基本技能。