What is media’s relation to social change? How can digital media transform the world? How have digital technologies reconfigured the media fields? What are the key issues related to media that we should be concerned about today, not just as scholars but also as citizens? Focusing on ‘change’, you’ll explore the place of media in social change, and think about media as economic and cultural. You’ll critically examine how media follow, block, represent, produce or manage changes of one kind or another in our society. You’ll also investigate a range of topics and case studies, engaging with different industry views and academic approaches for understanding media at a particularly critical moment of its development. In doing so you will be able to reflect on the status of media in contemporary society.
LecSem: 16 hours.
Workshop: 16 hours
Main Assessment Methods:
Digital Portfolio.
Assessment Details: Complete a series of practical tasks (1500 words or equivalent). Worth 50%.
Essay.
Assessment Details: Essay (1500 words). Worth 50%.
Reassessment Method:
Like-for-like
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On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
1. Critically evaluate the historical development of media in the context of economic, political, cultural and social changes, and changes in technologies.
2. Identify and critically evaluate key academic debates about the place and status of media in contemporary society.
3. Assess media initiatives that facilitate citizen participation and foster social development.
4. Reflect on initiating, planning and executing aspects of media projects in the context of social change.
5. Apply acquired knowledge via practical engagement with tasks associated with media practice for social change.
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