Handbook

Overview

Note: The course code for this course was previously ARTS3090 Media is crucial to social transformation, and many activist and advocacy movements aim for change in mainstream media. In this course you will learn to understand and analyse a range of contemporary and historical projects and practices for media change, … For more content click the Read More button below.

Note: The course code for this course was previously ARTS3090

Media is crucial to social transformation, and many activist and advocacy movements aim for change in mainstream media. In this course you will learn to understand and analyse a range of contemporary and historical projects and practices for media change, and develop your own skills and capacities as a media change maker. From revolutionary and anti-colonial radio to media for disability justice, from the international campaign for a New World Information and Communication Order to the latest First Nations AI. You will develop a reflexive and critical understanding of media interventions both within and beyond media industries. You will learn how practices of media activism and advocacy have to take into account issues ranging from the politics of voice and listening to the politics of humanitarian intervention, and how such activism involves confronting prevailing norms and orthodoxies. Engaging with key concepts around media and social change, you will complete the course well equipped to contribute to media change for more just media futures.

Conditions for Enrolment

Prerequisite: 48 UOC overall, including 6 UOC from level 2 Media Studies or Media, Culture and Technology courses

Delivery

In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

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Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$2124
Domestic Students	$5640
International Students	$5640

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Term 2

Campus

Sydney

Academic Calendar

Field of Education

100799 Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified

Timetable

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Media Interventions, Activism and Advocacy

MDIA3090

6 Units of Credit