CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultural Policy, Coolhunting, Anita Sarkeesian
17 Jan 2018
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Interdisciplinary - work that moves across academic discipline. Cs borrows from, contributes to, other elds of: Women"s studies (how women are represented in the media) Science and technology studies (paradigms - how different understandings of the world changed how we lived - ex evolution, discovering the world was round) Conducted in the service of a public or private. Conducted in the service of society broadly admin agency (racism, sexism, larger big picture issues) Sees media as useful tools to be harnessed for. Sees media system in general as something in corporate/agency/government goals need of study/scrutiny. Solves small problems, but does not look at big. Deals with big picture issues (sometimes in issues relation to speci c goals or on their own) The assumption that it is not political, instead. Assumption that it is political (social justice- more objective and scienti c oriented, moral or ethical) Assumption that it is based more on quantitative.
