About the course

From Fridays4Future, #metoo, and Black Lives Matter; to reactionary far-right mobilisations opposing social justice policies, multiculturalism, and feminism; new waves of social movements have swept across the world. These movements are all intricately linked to digital technologies, from hashtag activism to mainstream media. This course explores the complex relationship between media, digital technologies, and social movement activism, and the changes and continuities of this relationship over time. It brings together theories from Media and Communication Studies, Communication for Development, Sociology, and Political Science, to critically examine the role of both legacy media and new digital technologies in contemporary forms of activism, as well as to trace historically how activism and media have developed in tandem to create significant political, social, and cultural changes.

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 autumn 2024

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

45 cr. advanced level studies, and the equivalent of Swedish higher secondary school English 6.

Selection

University credits completed 100%

Course literature

  • Foucault Welles, Brooke, Moya Bailey, and Sarah J. Jackson. #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2020.
  • Kaun, Anne. Crisis and Critique. A Brief History of Media and Participation in Times of Crisis. London: Zed Books, 2017.
  • Tufekci, Zeynep. Twitter and Teargas. The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017.

A selection of journal articles and book chapters available via the University library's full-text databases will be added to the list of mandatory readings each term.

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken 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

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School of Arts and Communication

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