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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Shannon M Larkin <<a href="mailto:slarkin@mit.edu">slarkin@mit.edu</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">January 21, 2022 at 10:42:56 AM EST</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Spring class in Comparative Media Studies – options for both graduate and undergraduate.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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CMS.S60/CMS.S96 Media Effects of Stereotyping and Morality: Racism and Resistance</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Instructor: Laura Partain<br>
Course: CMS.S60/96<br>
Meeting Time: Tuesday, Thursday 2-3:30 pm EST<br>
Meeting Place: Building 56 Room 191<br>
Office Location: Zoom<br>
Office Hours: By Appointment<br>
Email Address:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:lpartain@mit.edu">lpartain@mit.edu</a><br>
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Do violent video games lead to violent behavior? Can the news media brainwash people? Would more diverse television representations result in a less racist society? These are the questions of media effects researchers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In this course, we will explore how media messages lead to different outcomes. Specifically, we will look at the way that media stereotypes can shape audiences’ emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. Taking a media effects approach,
we will examine the development of racist and bigoted worldviews, assessing the way that socialization processes lead to in-group and out-group formations and the perpetuation of stereotypes. Although we will root our explorations in social psychological theory,
we will also read historical, critical, and post-colonial literature to better understand the global contexts and ideologies behind racist attitudes and behaviors. Our readings will focus on global anti-Blackness, anti-Muslim racism, and anti-Indigeneity,
but we will also touch on other forms of racism (for example, towards immigrants and refugees). We will explore the state of media representations, the effects of these representations, and the role of morality in decision making processes, as well as potential
interventions into media messages and mediated bias reduction strategies.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Shannon Larkin<br>
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<a href="https://join.slack.com/t/shannonsoffice/signup"><span style="color:#0563C1">shannonsoffice.slack.com</span></a><br>
<a href="http://cmsw.mit.edu/">cmsw.mit.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://sciwrite.mit.edu/">sciwrite.mit.edu</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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