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Identifying Your Interests and Establishing a Research Plan

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In our Mapping the Field lecture (scroll down to the bottom quarter of the page, and see my “Mapping the Field” lesson and lecture notes) we’ll do our best to map out the field of media studies. It’s a tricky job, since media studies is a terrain whose borders are permeable and always shifting. This survey will hopefully help you to familiarize yourself with the ideas that others have thought and the work that others have done before you; the theories that have inspired research and creative work, and the research and creative practice that have generated new theory; the places and communities in which that practice has taken place; and the uses to which it has been put. Surveying the field and studying its history not only enable you to build on the work that others have already done and open your eyes to the possibilities — scholarly and creative — that lie before you, but these tasks are also imperative if you are to be able to contribute meaningfully to the field. And that’s what i

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