Please note: readings should be done by class time on the date they are listed.
Week 1 Introduction
T 3/28 What is Activist Media?
Th 3/30 The Whole World is Watching: The Relationship between Mainstream and Activist Media in the 1960s
Reading: emailed excerpt of Todd Gitlin’s The Whole World is Watching
Week 2 Media use in resistance: from the 60’s to today
T 4/4 Civil Rights Movements
Reading: How BLM Uses Social Media to Fight Power; BLM The New Civil Rights Movement?; Beautiful Trouble 1-34
suggested viewing: Berkeley in the Sixties
Gimme Shelter
suggested viewing: Berkeley in the Sixties
Gimme Shelter
Th 4/6 Gender Equality
Reading: How Feminists Took on the Mainstream Media and Won; Beautiful Trouble 35-91
Please bring to class examples of how media is leveraged on behalf of movements related to gender.
CHOICE OF INTERVIEW SUBJECT DUE
Week 3 Different forms of Media Power
T 4/11 Visit from Finnish media scholar Risto Kunelius
Reading:
Changing Power of Journalism: The Two Phases of Mediatization
Beautiful Trouble Skip to theory section for now, 207-281 (for Kindle readers: the entire Theory section)
Which theories are more relevant to understanding media power?
Required Viewing: The Yes Men Fix the World
DRAFT OF INTERVIEW QUESTIONS DUE
Required Viewing: The Yes Men Fix the World
DRAFT OF INTERVIEW QUESTIONS DUE
Th 4/13 Visit from Jeff Chang to 2pm Activist Media section
Here is where to register for his talk, reception at 5:30 and talk at 7:00.
Week 4 Principles of Beautiful Trouble
T 4/18 Protest Music.
If possible please come to the 4-5:50 section of class to hear Guest Speaker Arthur Jones on protest music and the and his work with the Flobots
If possible please come to the 4-5:50 section of class to hear Guest Speaker Arthur Jones on protest music and the and his work with the Flobots
Reading: Beautiful Trouble 95-145 (first half of Principle's section-up to "Lead with Sympathetic Characters."
Required Viewing: Soundtrack for a Revolution (movie starts at minute 6:00) you can also watch it on Amazon
And You Don't Stop 30 years of Hip Hop part 1. (Here is a link to all 19! part of this VH1 documentary if you want to watch more.)
Th 4/20 Journalism as Activism in the Trump Era
Reading: Beautiful Trouble 146-203
Week 5
T 4/25 Guest Speaker Seth Walker on remix culture as a form of media resistance
Reading: 2 articles on Pirate Politics can be found here
Required Viewing: Everything is a Remix Highly recommended viewing if you have time: RIP: A Remix Manifesto and and Pirate Radio.
Th 4/27 Exam One
Week 6 Environmental and Racial Justice
T 5/2 Environmental Justice
Due: Outline of case study, including hypothesis about what you're going to find; sources of info about your subject; list of some of the BT principles you think your subject's experience might demonstrate. Also, think of a brand-new principle (not yet listed in BT) you think it might demonstrate.
Due: Outline of case study, including hypothesis about what you're going to find; sources of info about your subject; list of some of the BT principles you think your subject's experience might demonstrate. Also, think of a brand-new principle (not yet listed in BT) you think it might demonstrate.
Th 5/4 Guest Speaker: Ronnie Boykin on his exhibit The Chain of Perception in Black America, inspired by years of reading numerous negative statements on social media pertaining to social and political issues directly confronting the Black community and its culture. Boykin poses the question “What is your perception of Black people in this country?” He wants to locate an element common in all of us and view it as a catalyst for positive change. DUMA is excited to bring Boykin’s work to campus and hope it will spark conversations about race, perceptions of the black community, and popular culture and news media portrayal of violence.
Reading: TBA
Week 7 Mass Popular Movements
T 5/9 The Arab Spring
Reading: Networks of Outrage and Hope 53-109
Required Viewing: The Square (also available to stream on netflix)
Required Viewing: The Square (also available to stream on netflix)
Th 5/11 Occupy Wall Street and M15 Protests in Spain
Required Viewing: 99% the occupy wall street collaborative film (google it and several rental options will come up)
Reading: Networks of Outrage and Hope 110-155
Week 8 Leaks
T 5/16 Online Civil Liberties
Reading: browse the Guardian NSA Files coverage
Rusbridger's The Snowden Leaks and the Public
Required Viewing: CitizenFour
Rusbridger's The Snowden Leaks and the Public
Required Viewing: CitizenFour
Th 5/18 DRAFT OF CASE STUDY DUE
Reading: Networks of Outrage and Hope 218-end
Reading: Networks of Outrage and Hope 218-end
Week 9 Wrap Up
T 5/23 Guest Speaker Nathan Schneider author of Ours to Hack and to Own and advocate of platform cooperativism
Th 5/25 Wrap Up Exam
Week 10 Presentations
T 5/30 Final Presentations
Th 6/1 Final Presentations
CASE STUDY DUE
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