Academic Calendar - 2025
Western University Academic Calendar. - 2025
Media and Communication Studies 3930A/B
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
This course explores how activists use digital technologies to organize, protest, evade surveillance, and share information. It considers what contemporary digital activism reveals about democracy and how it functions, the media, citizenship, and technological potentials and limitations. Students will engage with content in a variety of formats and project-based work.
Antirequisite(s): Digital Communication 2305F/G if taken in 2022-23 or the former MIT 3954F/G if taken in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.
Course Weight: 0.50
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Subject Code: MEDIACOM
Media and Communication Studies 3930A/B
DIGITAL ACTIVISM
This course explores how activists use digital technologies to organize, protest, evade surveillance, and share information. It considers what contemporary digital activism reveals about democracy and how it functions, the media, citizenship, and technological potentials and limitations. Students will engage with content in a variety of formats and project-based work.
Antirequisite(s): Digital Communication 2305F/G if taken in 2022-23 or the former MIT 3954F/G if taken in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23.
Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.