# Current Debates in Media

- Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Department: Comparative Media Studies/Writing
- Teacher: Dr. Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin
- Term: Spring 2015
- Level: Undergraduate
- Language: English
- Subjects: Society and politics, Philosophy, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [MIT OpenCourseWare](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-701-current-debates-in-media-spring-2015/)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only.)
- Syllabus: [at the source](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-701-current-debates-in-media-spring-2015/pages/syllabus/)
- Readings: [at the source](https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/cms-701-current-debates-in-media-spring-2015/pages/readings/)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This class addresses important, current debates in media with in-depth discussion of popular perceptions and policy implications. Students will engage in the critical study of the economic, political, social, and cultural significance of media, and learn to identify, analyze, and understand the complex relations among media texts, policies, institutions, industries, and infrastructures. This class offers the opportunity to discuss, in stimulating and challenging ways, topics such as ideology, propaganda, net neutrality, big data, digital hacktivism, digital rebellion, media violence, gamification, collective intelligence, participatory culture, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, etc., from historical, transcultural, and multiple methodological perspectives.

## Lectures

1. ["Interview with Lara Baladi” by Gabrielle Trépanier-Jobin](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/cms-701-current-debates-in-media-spring-2015/24e5768c8ec4), 1 h 54 min (Video)
2. [Gamification & Us: Promises and Challenges of a Gameful World](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/mit/cms-701-current-debates-in-media-spring-2015/575e7922720b), 1 h 48 min (Video)