Antisemitism operates through media systems in ways that require close analytical attention.
This course introduces media analysis as a central approach to understanding antisemitism across historical and contemporary contexts. Drawing on an integrated, cultural studies–based methodological approach, the course equips students with tools to examine how antisemitism is produced and circulated, engaged with by audiences and users, framed institutionally, and globalized across print, broadcast, and digital environments.

The course offers an in-depth examination of qualitative approaches organized around three core domains of media analysis: textual analysis; the study of production and media industries (including cultural policy, media institutions, and broadcast versus digital systems); and the analysis of audience reception, engagement, and meaning-making, with attention to cultural geography and media globalization across historical and contemporary contexts. Students develop a solid theoretical and methodological foundation for analyzing antisemitism as it operates within and through media systems, preparing