The course explores the different types of platform labour around the world, including micro-work, gig work and social media platforms. It presents aspects of the platformization of labour, as algorithmic management, datafication, work conditions and platform infrastructures. The course also emphasizes workers' organization, platform cooperativism and platform prototypes.

A seminar that explores historical and contemporary movements and issues in media art as well as creation-based research methods that integrate media studies inquiry and analysis through artistic and media-making practice and experimentation.

This course examines the history, organization and social role of a range of independent, progressive, and oppositional media practices. It emphasizes the ways alternative media practices, including the digital, are the product of and contribute to political movements and perspectives that challenge the status quo of mainstream consumerist ideologies.

This course builds on a foundation in Feminist Media Studies to engage the scholarly field of Trans-Feminist Queer (TFQ) Media Studies. While these three terms (trans, feminist and queer) can bring us to three separate areas of media studies, this course immerses students in scholarship on media and technology that is shaped by and committed to their shared critical, theoretical and political priorities. This scholarship centers transgender, feminist and queer knowledges and experiences to both understand and reimagine the ways that media and communication technologies contribute to racial, national, ethnic, gender, sexual and economic relations of power and possibility.

This course explores the importance of sound and sound technology to visual media practices by considering how visuality in cinema, video, television, gaming, and new media art is organized and supported by aural techniques such as music, voice, architecture, and sound effects.

This course introduces students to media industries and commercial popular cultural forms in East Asia. Topics include reality TV, TV dramas, anime and manga, as well as issues such as regional cultural flows, global impact of Asian popular culture, and the localization of global media in East Asia.
Same as GASC41H3, (MDSC41H3)

This seminar provides students with a theoretical toolkit to understand, analyze and evaluate media-society relations in the contemporary world. Students will, through reading and writing, become familiar with social theories that intersect with questions and issues related to media production, distribution and consumption. These theories range from historical materialism, culturalism, new materialism, network society, public sphere, feminist and queer studies, critical race theory, disability media theories, and so on. Special attention is paid to the mutually constitutive relations between digital media and contemporary societies and cultures.

Anthropology studies language and media in ways that show the impact of cultural context. This course introduces this approach and also considers the role of language and media with respect to intersecting themes: ritual, religion, gender, race/ethnicity, power, nationalism, and globalization. Class assignments deal with lectures, readings, and students' examples.
Same as ANTC59H3

This course focuses on modern-day scandals, ranging from scandals of politicians, corporate CEOs, and celebrities to scandals involving ordinary people. It examines scandals as conditioned by technological, social, cultural, political, and economic forces and as a site where meanings of deviances of all sorts are negotiated and constructed. It also pays close attention to media and journalistic practices at the core of scandals.

This course explores Black media production, representation, and consumption through the analytical lenses of Black diaspora studies, critical race studies, political economy of media and more. Themes include, Black media histories, radical traditions, creative expression, and social movements. Students will explore various forms of media production created and influenced by Black communities globally. The course readings and assignments examine the interconnection between the lived cultural, social, and historical experiences of the African diaspora and the media artefacts they create as producers, or they are referenced as subjects. Students will critically examine media artefacts (music, television shows, movies, social media content) through various lenses, including race and gender theory, rhetoric, visual communication, and digital media analysis.

Selfies are an integral component of contemporary media culture and used to sell everyone from niche celebrities to the Prime Minister. This class examines the many meanings of selfies to trace their importance in contemporary media and digital cultures as well as their place within, and relationship to, historically and theoretically grounded concepts of photography and self portraiture.

Understanding the interests and goals of audiences is a key part of media production. This course introduces communication research methods including ratings, metrics, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The focus of class discussion and research project is to use these methods to be able to understand the nature of audiences’ media use in the digital age.

Same as JOUC80H3

This course will examine Critical Disability Studies as it intersects with and informs Media Studies and Science & Technology Studies with a focus on the advancement of disability justice goals as they relate to topics that may include: interspecies assistances and co-operations, military/medical technologies that enhance "ability," the possibilities and limitations of cyborg theory for a radical disabilities politics and media practice informed by the disability justice ethics of “nothing about us without us.”

This course will examine ethical considerations for conducting digital research with a focus on privacy, consent, and security protections, especially as these issues affect underrepresented and minoritized communities.

The course explores critical data studies and considers critical understandings of artificial intelligence, with a focus on topics that may include algorithmic fairness, data infrastructures, AI colonialism, algorithmic resistance, and interplays between race/gender/sexuality issues and data/artificial intelligence.

The advancement of religious concepts and movements has consistently been facilitated - and contested - by contemporaneous media forms, and this course considers the role of media in the creation, development, and transmission of religion(s), as well as the challenges posed to modern religiosities in a digital era.

This seminar elaborates on foundational concepts and transformations in the media industries, such as conglomeration, platformization, datafication, and digitization. Taking a global perspective, emerging industry practices will be discussed, such as gig labour, digital advertising, and cryptocurrency.

This course focuses on the process of platformization and how it impacts cultural production. It provides an introduction into the fields of software, platform, and app studies. The tenets of institutional platform power will be discussed, such as economics, infrastructure, and governance, as well as questions pertaining to platform labour, digital creativity, and democracy.

This course examines the complex and dynamic interplay of media and politics in contemporary China, and the role of the government in this process.

Same as GASC40H3

This course introduces students to academic perspectives on games and play. Students develop a critical understanding of a variety of topics and discussions related to games, gamification, and play in the physical and virtual world.

New media technologies enable more production and distribution of culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse voices than ever before. Who produces these diverse voices and how accessible are these media? This course explores various types of diasporic media from century-old newspapers to young and hip news and magazine blogs, produced by and for members of a multicultural society.

Same as JOUC60H3

How does journalism engage and feed into broader public debates? And how does journalism from around the world impact such debates differently? This course considers the topic of journalism and public sphere theory, and discusses the relationship between the press and politics, government, and democracy. The course takes a comparative lens to journalism, and will also draw on ethnographic readings and approaches.
Same as ANTC53H3, (MDSC53H3)

This course explores themes of labour in news media and new media. Topics include labour conditions for media workers across sectors; the labour impacts of media convergence; and the global distribution of media labour including content generation and management. The course is structured by intersectional analyses, studying how race and racism, class, gender, sex and sexism, sexuality, nationality, global location and citizenship status, Indigeneity and religion shape our experiences of media, journalism and labour.

Same as JOUC62H3

This course examines the synergistic relationship between the moving image and music and how these synergies result in processes of meaning-making and communication. Drawing on readings in cultural theory, cultural studies, musicology and film studies, the course considers examples from the feature film, the Hollywood musical, and the animated cartoon.

Same as MUZC20H3/(VPMC85H3)

This is a senior seminar that focuses on the connections among media and the arts. Students explore how artists use the potentials offered by various media forms, including digital media, to create new ways of expression. Topics vary.

This is a senior seminar that focuses on media and society. It explores the social and political implications of media, including digital media, and how social forces shape their development. Topics vary.

This is a senior seminar that closely examines media as institutions such as media regulatory bodies, firms, and organizations, as well as media in relation to other institutions in broader political economies. In this course, students will have the opportunity to interrogate key theoretical concepts developed in critical media industry studies and apply them to real-life cases through research and writing.

Together with MGAB02H3, this course provides a rigorous introduction to accounting techniques and to the principles and concepts underlying these techniques.
The preparation of financial statements is addressed from the point of view of both preparers and users of financial information.

This course is a continuation of MGAB01H3. Students are encouraged to take it immediately after completing MGAB01H3. Technical topics include the reporting and interpretation of debt and equity issues, owners' equity, cash flow statements and analysis. Through cases, choices of treatment and disclosure are discussed, and the development of professional judgment is encouraged.

An introduction to management and cost accounting with an emphasis on the use of accounting information in managerial decision-making. Topics include patterns of cost behaviour, transfer pricing, budgeting and control systems.