Streaming Media Industries

4 credits

This course examines the ecosystem of streaming media from the perspective of power and political economy, focusing on the key corporations that shape our experience of it. How do corporations control the infrastructure of streaming media? How have streams, platforms, and algorithms changed our society? What is the effect of streaming media on creatives, laborers, and producers of content? What opportunities and obstacles are there in streaming media for more diversity and equality? This is a distance education course. No credit for COMM 106BR if taken after COMM 106B. Prerequisites: junior or senior standing.