COMS 354 - YOUTH AND MEDIA
FALL 2007
PROFESSOR LESLIE REGAN SHADE
CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, DEPT. OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES
CJ- 4.240
Wednesdays, 1:15-4pm

Office: Loyola, CJ 4.407
Email: lshade@alcor.concordia.ca
Tel: 848-2424 x2550
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 12-1; and by appointment
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course explores the forms of communication that have developed between media and youth, including children and adolescents. Topical areas include future policies and planning in the light of developmental needs, ethical parameters, and experiments in creative empowerment (from Undergraduate Calendar 2007-08).

This course will also acquaint students with a vast range of communication studies scholarship on youth and media (historical and current), encompassing a range of theories and methodologies. Policy issues weave themselves throughout the course, with one of the central themes media commercialization and its impact on youth. Contrasted to media corporatization are explorations about how youth are actively and avidly creating their own media for cultural and social mobilization. Various communication technologies will be looked at, including television, film, and information and communication technologies (internet spaces, mobile phones).