Course Info: HACU-0167
| Course | HACU-0167 Digital Resistance |
| Long Title | Digital Resistance: An Introduction to Media Studies and Production |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson HallüJerome Liebling Center 2ü131 on WüT from 1:00-3:50ü7:00-9:00 |
| Faculty | Professor LozaüKara Lynch |
| Capacity | 30 |
| Available | 12 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Arts, Design, and Media Culture, Humanities, and Languages Power, Community and Social Justice |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | Lab fee: $30. In this course, students are expected to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This introductory seminar on media analysis and production considered how constructions of power are embodied in technologies and, conversely, how technologies shape our notions of authority, and how we actively mobilize against them. In recent years, access to information and images has shifted dramatically. PDAs/handheld technologies, social media networks, live web-streaming, video games, and podcasts eclipse mass-media broadcast channels distributing entertainment, news, and information. Drawing upon Media Arts, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Cultural Studies, we examined models of Digital Resistance like Citizen Journalism, Community Access, Artivism, Hacktivism, and Digital Movements like BlackLivesMatter, Occupy, Arab Spring, and IdleNoMore in order to understand precursors to contemporary innovations; Corporate Media and Government gatekeeping of information; modes of production; and the relationship between media, information and action. Through readings, responses, visual projects, and research essays, students learned to critically read and make digital media and contend with it as a mass language. |