Jul 03, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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MDIA 4012 - Broadcasting for Social Justice: A History of Broadcasting and U.S. Social Movements (1930-Present).
Historical analysis of the manner in which committed educators, media activists, and practitioners have sought to employ the reach of our broadcast media with the emerging struggle for civil/human rights in 20th and 21st century America. Conduct a detailed historical survey of social movements, beginning in the Depression-era, expanding through the birth of the civil-rights movement, anti-war, feminist, environmental, and anti-globalization movements. Of particular interest will be a focus on media examples (Broadcast Reform Movement, educational/public broadcasting, Pacifica radio, Nat’l Fedration of Community Broadcasters, minority production consortia, the Cable Access Movement, media activism on the Internet in a continuation of the struggle for greater public participation.
Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- 1. Students will uncover the historical intersections of media activism from the 1930s to the present.
- 2. Students will become acquainted for the first time with specific examples of the roles elements of our broadcast media have played in the ongoing struggle toward expanding democratic principles to all citizens.
- 3. Through historical analysis and synthesis, students will be able to project the manner in which the struggle for social justice will possibly morph into new forms of activism, new coalitions of enlightened self-interests, and new forms of media ac.
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