Nabil Echchaibi is Associate Professor of media studies and Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching focus on media, religion, and the politics and poetics. He is the author of Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal and the co-editor of three books. His scholarly work has appeared in various journals and in many book volumes. His opinion columns have been published in The Guardian, Forbes, Al-Jazeera, Salon, LatinoRebels, and Religion Dispatches and in publications in France and Morocco. He is currently writing his book, Unmosquing Islam, Media and Fugitive Muslimness, which calls into view the blackmail of a regime of transparency that governs the visibility of Muslims and reclaims the lived experience of Muslimness by insisting on its fugitivity and instability away from an imaginary of enmity and fixed ontology.
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Identity, religion, and the role of media in shaping and reflecting modern religious identities among Muslims in the Middle East and in diaspora, Muslim media production, both transnational satellite television and digital media as a discursive and performative stage where young individuals and institutions debate and contest what it means to be modern in the Muslim context, Decolonial theory and its implications for Media Studies
FYSM 1000 - First Year Seminar
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Fall 2018
Provide first year students with an immersive experience in an interdisciplinary topic that addresses current issues including social, technical and global topics. Taught by faculty from across campus, the course provides students with an opportunity to interact in small classes, have project based learning experiences and gain valuable communication skills. Seminar style classes focused on discussion and projects.
MDST 3331 - Sports-Media Complex
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Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Summer 2024
Explores the rich connections between the sports industry, spectating, the media complex and social life. Using theories of cultural studies and drawing on specific examples from the sports world, students focus on how sport shapes and reinforces understandings of gender, race, class and sexuality. Addresses major questions about the political economy, commodification, mediation and reception of the spectacle of the sports complex, as well as politics and cultural consequences of its transnational reach. Degree credit not granted for this course and JRNL 3804.
MDST 4931 - Internship
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
MDST 6711 - Media and Popular Culture
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Spring 2018
Introduces fundamental methods for understanding the construction of meaning in film, television, popular music and advertising. Traces the study of popular culture through film theory, mass media analysis and cultural studies. Surveys various strands of research that seek to understand popular culture and its effects.
MDST 6871 - Special Topics
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Spring 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
Special topics. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours hours
MDST 7011 - Proseminar in Media Communication Theory 1
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2022
Introduces the principal concepts, literature, and theoretical and paradigmatic perspectives of media studies and mass communication and their ties and contributions to parallel domains in the social sciences and humanities. Formerly MDST 7011.
MDST 7021 - Proseminar in Media and Communication Theory 2
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Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
Continues the introduction of principle concepts, literature, and theoretical and paradigmatic perspectives of media studies and mass communication and their ties and contributions to parallel domains in the social sciences and humanities. Formerly MDST 7021.
