Green Media and Civic Engagement (2024/2025: periode 1)

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course, students will have:
• developed a critical understanding of how (green) media - in a broader sense, including digital media, transmedia, theatre, film and television - afford (playful forms of) civic engagement;
• developed a critical understanding of how (green) media can influence the public's awareness and assessment of societal (environmental) challenges by building alternative eco-narratives, outlining new forms of ecological identity, and fostering environmental and ecological literacy.

After completing this course, students will be able to:
• recognize the environmental impact of today's (green) media objects and practices;
• conduct a (comparative) analysis of contemporary green media phenomena;
• articulate and operationalize valid research questions about green media objects and practices;
• write academically on this subject on an advanced level;
• use their methodological skills to conduct a framing, discourse or affordance analysis as well as articulate a media-comparative perspective.

Vakinhoudelijk

Priority rules apply to this course. Make sure you register for this course before June 10, 13:00 noon to be considered for enrollment.
The following students are guaranteed a place:
  • BA Media en cultuur/Media and Culture;
  • BA TCS or LAS;
  • students who are registered for the minor Game Studies;
  • pre-master’s students.
Other students will be placed by means of random selection.

Contemporary media are increasingly used not only to entertain, but also to persuade people, raising their awareness and changing or reinforcing their attitudes and behavior for the good of society. 'Green media' seek to contribute to ecological thought and to make people become ecological citizens. This course introduces students to key environmental issues as these are ariculated in computer games (ecogames, eco-modding), VR, social media, data visualizations, transmedia, film (art, Hollywood, science fiction, video essays), documentaries, television series and theatre. The underlying questions are: how can media address today’s environmental challenges? How do we conceptualize impact of (green) media from a media-comparative perspective? How can green media facilitate social change on a micro, meso and macro level? How do green media construct (playful forms of) civic engagement by positioning its users in medium-specific ways? What is the environmental impact of media production, distrubution and reception? Examining the ways in which green media can influence the public’s awareness of environmental issues, this course is a critical starting point for students researching and studying the growing field of green media studies as a subdiscipline within the environmental humanities.

This course is the first one of the advanced trajectories "New Media and Digital Culture" and "Participatory Cultures: Civic Engagement in Media and Performance" and the minor Game Studies. It builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in the basic trajectories 1 and 2 of Media and Culture. In these advanced trajectories students deepen their historical and theoretical knowledge of (new) media and (digital) culture and train academic skills that are specific to the field, such as research methods and professional skills.

LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See https://tcs.sites.uu.nl for more information.

Werkvormen

Hoorcollege

Werkcollege
Toelichting

Lectures, seminar meetings and Film screening are designed to provide tools for the critical reading of texts, discussions of research questions and for analyzing green media practices. The course teaches a comparative perspective on contemporary digital media cultures and includes practice-based components. We will also meet with guest speakers from the work field.

Bijdrage

Students are required to prepare all meetings (read and complete assignments, mandatory course literature) and to participate in groups assignments. During group meetings active participation and peer feedback on written work as well as presentations are required.

Voorbereiding

Lectures and seminar meetings are designed to provide tools for the critical reading of texts, discussions of research questions and for analyzing green media practices. The course teaches a comparative perspective on contemporary digital media cultures and includes practice-based components. We will also meet with guest speakers from the work field.

Toetsing

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 70% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 5,25

Portfolio

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25

Video Essay (30%): presenting and discussing the results of case studies, creativity in the choice of the cases and thoroughness of the analysis; conducting and evaluating practice-based research exercises. Final paper (70%; individual, minimum grade 5,5): validity of research question(s); level of critical discussion of the theoretical framework; reflection on (comparative) methodology; precision of the (comparative) analysis; academic writing style.

To be announced in Course Manual.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.

Voorkennis

This course presupposes basic knowledge of media comparison and the history and theory of (new) media.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

This knowledge can be trained in the courses Intermediality and Introduction to New Media and Digital Culture. Moreover you are expected to be acquainted with either the Chicago Notes & Bibliography or MLA system of referencing and annotating literature; search and select sources/literature in the university library’s online databases; read and process academic texts; write a coherent and well-structured text, using academic English.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

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Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • LITERATUUR
    Course readings will be available online.

Aanbevolen materiaal

  • BOEK
    John Parham. Green Media and Popular Culture, An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan.
    Parham, J. (2015). Green Media and Popular Culture, An Introduction. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Coördinator

dr. J.F.F. Raessens j.raessens@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. L.H. op de Beke L.H.opdeBeke@uu.nl
dr. J.F.F. Raessens j.raessens@uu.nl
dr. S. Werning s.werning@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 3 juni 2024 tot en met vrijdag 21 juni 2024

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 19 augustus 2024 tot en met dinsdag 20 augustus 2024

Inschrijving niet geopend
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