About the course

This course is offered as part of a programme:

Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year) Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year)

Course content

Syllabus spring 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

Prerequisite courses for this course are: KK640B Media and Communication Studies: Key Themes in Media and Communication Studies (passed) KK641B Media and Communication Studies: Understanding the Creative Industries (passed) KK642B Media and Communication Studies: Collaborative Media (passed) KK643B Media and Communication Studies: Research Methodology (passed) and KK644B Media and Communication Studies: Master's (One-Year) Thesis (passed)

Course literature

  • Carragee, Kevin and Lawrence, Frey (2016) ‘Communication Activism Research:
  • Engaged Communication Scholarship for Social Justice’, International Journal of Communication 10, pp: 1932–8036
  • Hallahan, Derina Holtzhausen, Betteke van Ruler, Dejan Vercic & Krishnamurthy Sriramesh (2007) ’Defining Strategic Communication’, International Journal of Strategic Communication, 1(1), 3-35
  • Meikle, Graham (2018 (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. New York: Routledge (a selection of chapters)
  • Ricketts, Aidan. (2012) The Activists Handbook: A step-by-step guide to participatory democracy (Zed Books)

A selection of journal articles and chapters available through the library's full-text databases will be added.

Course evaluation

The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints with regards to the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations as well as informing participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

This education is provided by

Faculty of Culture and Society

At the Faculty of Culture and Society, research and education concerns many of the major issues of our time – for example those...

School of Arts and Communication

At the School of Arts and Communication (K3), we work with interdisciplinary education and research in media, culture and...