UC SANTA BARBARA

Undergraduate - Winter - 2025

The Future of Media

Details

Winter - 2025
187FM
4
Film studies 46 or upper-division standing, and consent of instructor.

Description

This seminar takes a critical-industrial approach to analyzing 21st century digital media culture. We survey ongoing developments related to social media, streaming media, advertising, business models, and content development, among other topics, throughout the quarter. We also look at the various stakeholders ranging from Hollywood studios, Big Tech corporations, music and gaming companies, and YOU – the user – in order to understand the forces controlling, directing, creating, obstructing, and/or unleashing whatever is on the horizon for media’s future.