Global Media, War, and Technology
The experience of war has changed fundamentally - not only for those fighting and reporting, but also for those on the home front. High-tech nations wage wars from a distance using satellite-guided weaponry while non-state military actors, terrorist organizations, and citizen journalists have increasingly added new voices and visual perspectives to the conversation about conflict.
The ubiquity of smartphones, internet access, and social media transports the experience and complexity of war directly into our lives. Cyberspace offers greater freedoms and access to information at the same time as we discover a dramatic global rise of cyber espionage, internet censorship, and surveillance.
In this course, we map this emerging new terrain where violent conflict, information technology, and global media intersect and where the old distinctions between battlefront and home front, between soldier and civilian, between war and entertainment, and between public and private are being redrawn.
Considering these changes, this course engages with questions surrounding:
The relationship between media, information technology, and war
How violent conflict is presented in the media and the responsibilities of journalists during wartime
The effect of instantaneous, worldwide reporting on battle and the politics of conflict
How we can understand and critically engage with media and information technology
In order to engage with these questions, this course is taught through a number of conventional and unconventional forms of learning methods and activities. These include lecture videos, questionnaires, and discussion fora. But it also includes practical, experiential elements taught through crowdsourcing, individual research, critical viewing, media and image analysis, and surveys. Combined, these activities allow you to gain fresh and timely insights into what happens beneath the surface of the screen in front of you. They enable you to gain a deeper understanding of how the politics of today's wars play out on and behind the digital screens in our hypermediatized age.
What you'll learn
- The history and evolution of global media technology as it relates to conflict
- The major themes and trends of global media in times of war
- Application of the history and major themes of global media to current issues
- Skills to be a critical media consumer
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 7 weeks, 2–4 hours per week |
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Cost | $189 |
From | The University of Queensland, UQx via edX |
Instructors | Sebastian Kaempf, Roland Bleiker, Emma Hutchison |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Humanities |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 7 weeks, 2–4 hours per week |
Starts | On Demand (Start anytime) |
Cost | $189 |
From | The University of Queensland, UQx via edX |
Instructors | Sebastian Kaempf, Roland Bleiker, Emma Hutchison |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Humanities |
Tags | Social Sciences Humanities |
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