 21st century media studies. In this class, we spend our time really thinking about media, whether that's something that you're very familiar with, like successful YouTube videos, podcasts, or television shows, or maybe things that you're less familiar with, like graffiti or street art, or the history of advertisement, or the news. We'll spend some time really analyzing each type of media, how it's created, how it affects us, how culture affects it, and along the way we'll examine some of the critical issues around each type of media, such as the portrayal of gender in advertising. Each module will also contain a synchronous online session where we will often bring in guest speakers who are experts in that type of media. So for instance, when we're talking about journalism, we'll bring in a working journalist. When we're talking about audio, we'll bring in a radio producer. And when we're talking about comic books, we'll bring in experts on comics. I hope that you'll join me in 21st century media studies.