124264 KO Critical Media Analysis (2014W)

Resistance! Media and Protest from Banksy to Pussy Riot

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Continuous assessment of course work

Moodle

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 08.09.2014 00:00 to Fr 12.09.2014 18:00
Registration is open from Tu 23.09.2014 00:00 to Th 25.09.2014 23:59
Deregistration possible until Fr 31.10.2014 23:59

Details

max. 30 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Melissa Kennedy

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

    
    Thursday
    09.10.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    16.10.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    23.10.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    30.10.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    06.11.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    13.11.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    20.11.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    27.11.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    04.12.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    11.12.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    18.12.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    08.01.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    15.01.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    22.01.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
    
    Thursday
    29.01.
    14:00 - 16:00
    Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This course analyses different media types each illustrated by a contemporary example of its use as social protest:

Graffiti as guerrilla art: Banksy

Cartoons for adults and subversive cultural politics: Bro?Town

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.

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, BEd 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.5-426, BA07.3; BEd 08a.2, BEd 08b.1
Lehrinhalt: 12-4260

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