Transnational Media Cultures

In this course we examine contemporary global media cultures from a transnational perspective. We focus on how media texts, industries, and practices circulate across national, cultural, and institutional boundaries, shaped by globalisation and digital infrastructures. We address how these processes produce both forms of cultural homogenisation and renewed attention to the local, including possibilities for activism, counter-practices, and strategic interventions by nation states and transnational institutions.
 

We work with key concepts and theoretical approaches in transnational cultural-media studies in this course, including global flows, translation, cosmopolitanism, cultural diplomacy, and world-making. We analyse media cases from diverse cultural, industrial, and institutional contexts and engage critically with theoretical texts to develop conceptually grounded analyses. Through seminar discussion, critical reading, and case-based analysis, students learn to apply transnational media theories, construct and substantiate analytical arguments, and critically evaluate the transnational implications of media practices. Students demonstrate their learning in an academic essay, followed by an individual follow-up paper conversation in which they communicate analytical findings, research-based insights, and conclusions by applying one or more course concepts to a self-chosen media case.