MDST-5002 (3) Media Activism and Public Engagement

Explores politics of media activism.. Relies on survey of existing theory and scholarship on media activism and close analyses of activist practices within both old and new media and on local, national and global scale. Special attention paid to questions of relativity and efficacy and value of media activism as both aesthetic and political activity. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of MDST 5001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.