Schedule

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 

Th 4/6 Gender Equality

Reading: How Feminists Took on the Mainstream Media and Won; Beautiful Trouble 35-91 (to the end of the Tactics section). 

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 

Th 4/13 Visit from Jeff Chang 

Reading: Excerpt from and review of this new book We Gon’Be Alright

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

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 (to the end of the Principle's section)

Intro to my book (emailed file); Trump and the Rise of Tribal Epistemology 

   

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 Pirate Radio 

Th 4/27 Exam One
Exam will be posted on the blog with instructions. Please email me you answers by Midnight Sunday April 30. 

Week 6 Environmental and Racial Justice

T 5/2 Environmental Justice (Guest presenter Skyler Anselmo on Skateboarding, Native American and 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.

Reading: Networks of Outrage and Hope 1-52
Required Viewing: How to Change the World

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)

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

Th 5/18 DRAFT OF CASE STUDY DUE 

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

Reading: Ours to Hack Part 1; Opening Up the Internet; Stir to Action Interview

Th 5/25 Wrap Up Exam

Week 10 Presentations

T 5/30 Final Presentations

Th 6/1 Final Presentations

CASE STUDY DUE