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How might we conceptualize media beyond their reduction to technological objects? This course invites you to reconceive media as complex assemblages and environments that mediate and transform all forms of social relation—whether of labor, power, intimacy, or war. Air, water, radioactive pollution, sound, viruses, shock waves, or electronic signals all function—at times temporarily, at times enduringly—as mediators of social organization: they set or collapse social divisions, connect and disconnect human and nonhuman communities, sustain or interrupt slow and fast violence, they also open pathways toward more just and equitable futures.

Who should take this course?

• Communication Students: Interested in exploring new approaches in media studies.
• Social Science, Art & Design Graduate Students: Looking for innovative methodologies to study how social, cultural, political and economic processes are caught up with media technologies and ecologies.

What You Will Learn:

This course will transform your understanding of media by attending to their constitutive material elements that permeate the environments we inhabit:

• Learn methodologies and theoretical approaches that reconceive media not only as technologies but as environments.
• Rethink research as an interdisciplinary practice that fosters collaboration, creativity, and accountability in exploring the media entanglements that shape our shared environments.

If you have questions about the course, please email gradcmns@sfu.ca or smatviye@sfu.ca 

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