This course addresses the use of communication technologies for mediating public discourse, organizing democratic protests or denouncing state violence. Through a practice and research-based approach to digital media productions, we interrogate the media’s capacity to produce “civic media”, in other words design a space of possibility, “a way of imagining a future of technology that [is] pro-social and for public benefit.”
Code
CM3082
Name
CIVIC MEDIA, TACTICAL MEDIA
Credits
4
Pre-requisites
None
Co-requisites
None
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
CM (Communications)
Level
Undergraduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
4490
Last update with CAMS
Understand key concepts in the field of Civic Media, for example: public sphere; networked counter-publics; citizen journalism; radical media; hacktivism; visuality and counter-visuality.
Students will articulate and defend their own definition of the term “Civic Media”.
Assess common argument about the role of digital media technologies in social change.
Understand the key methods used to approach Civic Media content, including digital ethnography, image analysis, and discourse analysis.
Produce their own video content from an ethnographic perspective.