CIVIC MEDIA, TACTICAL MEDIA (CM3082)

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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
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
CM1023 AND (CM2051 OR CM2051CCR)
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Assess common argument about the role of digital media technologies in social change.
  2. Produce their own video content from an ethnographic perspective.
  3. Students will articulate and defend their own definition of the term “Civic Media”.
  4. 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.
  5. Understand the key methods used to approach Civic Media content, including digital ethnography, image analysis, and discourse analysis.

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