12883 (v.6) Consumers, Audiences, Publics and Users 212

Area:	School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	2.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Seminar:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	12194 (v.6) MCCA 104 - Engaging Media or any previous version AND 12881 (v.7) MCCA 103 - Making Meanings or any previous version AND 301065 (v.4) Media, Communication and Information 101 - Research and Presentation Skills or any previous version AND 301066 (v.5) MCCA 102 - Culture to Cultures or any previous version
Syllabus (HB):	This unit aims to deepen students understanding of the receiving end of communications media- consumers, audiences, publics and users. It will familiarise students with the social and cultural consequences of media consumption and provide a strong grouning in competing perspectives in audiences studies and the role of media usage in the formation of subcultures, public spheres, and national communities.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Central External
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1		Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y
2010	Bentley Campus	Semester 2		Y
2010	Lim Kok Wing Uni Malaysia	Semester 1	Y
2010	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 1	Y
2010	Miri Sarawak Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External