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124264 KO Critical Media Analysis (2014S)
Resistance! Media and Protest from Banksy to Pussy Riot
Continuous assessment of course work
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How do different forms of media transmit and promote resistance and protest movements? How effective are they at influencing cultural and social attitudes and at changing political and economic policies? Do certain types of protest lend themselves to certain types of media? How do media forms cross national and language borders? This class explores these questions in relation to several modes of media protest: graffiti, comics, cartoons, docu-films, music, dance, smart mobbing and social media. Examples of each are from various Anglophone contexts including: British graffiti artist Banksy; South African anti-apartheid protest through music and dance; Caribbean créolité in reggae and capoeira; New Zealand Maori identity through satirical cartoon series BroTown; USA documentary films on ecological, social and economic issues; Aborigine, American Indian and First Nations use of social media to coordinate environmental and land rights demonstrations; the globalisation of local protest from the Arab Spring to Pussy Riot. We contextualise these discussions with theory on new technologies in culture studies, media multimodality, social semiotics, and postcolonial minority perspectives.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 10.02.2014 00:00 to Tu 25.02.2014 23:59
- Deregistration possible until Mo 31.03.2014 23:59
Details
max. 30 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 13.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 20.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 27.03. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 03.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 10.04. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 08.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 15.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 22.05. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 05.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 12.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
- Thursday 26.06. 16:00 - 18:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Regular attendance, participation in class and on-line discussion, one group presentation of a group project, one final essay
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
This course presents timely discussion of global issues of human rights, environmental degradation and neoliberal globalisation that predominate in contemporary protest and resistance movements. The variety of media fora discussed provides a comprehensive overview of applied Culture and Media Studies. More specifically, the range of (national) contexts and (media) texts gives students valuable insight into several minority, marginalised and indigenous peoples of the British Commonwealth as well as an introduction to some major historical and contemporary protest and resistance movements which shape identities, cultures and societies of the English-speaking world.
Examination topics
Interactive class containing lectures, peer presentations, group discussions, and class readings. A course reader of key theories, analysis and critique will be provided. Students are expected to participate in an on-line discussion forum. We will also consider how to teach these texts/events in schools, and practice critical and analytical essay writing. Students are expected to have watched the documentaries and read the texts at least once before class starts.
Reading list
Course material, assessment criteria and a list of recommended readings and viewings will be made available on Moodle and in a dedicated Dropbox folder.
Association in the course directory
Studium: UF 344, BA 612
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260
Last modified: We 09.09.2020 00:22
Graffiti as guerrilla art: Banksy
Cartoons for adults and subversive cultural politics: BroTown
Music & dance as secret resistance: reggae, capoeira
Documenting the documentary: Michael Moore
Smart Mobs and social revolution: Walkatjurra Walkabout
Global media and global protest: Pussy Riot
We read our media texts both closely, through social semiotics and the postcolonial strategy of the insider perspective, and as examples of aspects of culture and media studies, including: integration of new technologies, social and cultural capital, crowd behaviour and surveillance, deconstruction, and mediated reality.