AMU2007 · Digital media and social change

Overview

In this unit you will explore the communicative and cultural nature of new media technologies, and the creative use of digital technology to advance human knowledge to enable democratic processes and to facilitate social change. You will learn new media perspectives on a variety of design and communication strategies tied to a range of social and cultural issues, and learn from organisations and their leaders to gain a real-world perspective on these issues. Throughout the semester, you will also learn the basics for designing a communication campaign.

Areas of study: Digital media and communications

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. analyse social change theories and their impact on social, cultural, political problems;
2. evaluate new media’s role and impact as a tool for social change;
3. synthesize and apply media, communication, and social change theory in the context of a specific social/political/cultural problem;
4. work as a team to research, to develop, and to present the building blocks of a social change campaign that will address and potentially impact a specific systemic social/political problem.

Workload

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.