Course Info
Location: MCC 221 / Studio 139
Time: Thursdays, 9:30am - 12:20pm
Instructor: Professor Professor Ahn
Email: pahn@ucsd.edu
Office: MCC 246
Office Hours: Wednesdays, 3-4pm and by appt.
Course Description
This course guides students through a practice-based analysis of how contemporary social justice movements are using an array of web-based media strategies and tools to amplify and give voice to their stories and struggles for liberation. Now, more than ever, we need the critical tools to make sense of the dense, confusing and volatile media landscape in which we live, and begin building a new narrative and audiovisual framework guided by a vision of peace, self-determination and respect for one another's humanity. Over the course of the next ten weeks, we will be paying close attention to how journalists and grassroots media will be representing, as well as represented, during Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. At the same time, we will examine the longer histories of resistance waged by contemporary political struggles–including the Movement for Black Lives, migrant justice campaigns like #not1more, the fight for indigenous sovereignty at Standing Rock Indian Reservation, the movement to end violence against women. We will anchor our analyses within a broader cultural and historical context from which these movements emerged, while also putting into practice some of the representational, narrative and direct action strategies they have employed.
