this essay has to demonstrate the following points:
1. Demonstrate a broad and systematic understanding of media history and medium theory.
2. Critically evaluate historical and contemporary discourses about emergent media.
3. Apply methods from the module to contextualise contemporary media debates within a broad historical framework.
4. Explain and apply theoretical approaches and concepts from media and cultural studies to interrogate, analyse and explain the relationship between technological and socio-political change.
5. Frame, investigate and analyse an appropriate case study.
6. Communicate findings and analysis clearly and effectively in written form.
Upload files: those reading are the suggestion readings for this topic.
and here are some Recommended Reading from the professor:
Kubitschko, S. (2018). Acting on media technologies and infrastructures: Expanding the media as practice approach. Media, Culture & Society, 40(4), 629-635.
Lynch, M. (2015). How the media trashed the transitions. Journal of Democracy, 26(4), 90-99.
Mattoni, A., & Treré, E. (2014). Media practices, mediation processes, and mediatization in the study of social movements. Communication theory, 24(3), 252-271.
Mellen, R. P. (2012). Modern Arab uprisings and social media: An historical perspective on media and revolution. Explorations in Media Ecology, 11(2), 115-130.
Rodríguez, C., Ferron, B., & Shamas, K. (2014). Four challenges in the field of alternative, radical and citizens’ media research. Media, Culture & Society, 36(2), 150-166.
Further Reading:
Al Sayyad, N., & Guvenc, M. (2015). Virtual uprisings: On the interaction of new social media, traditional media coverage and urban space during the ‘Arab Spring’. Urban Studies, 52(11), 2018-2034.
Atton, C. (Ed.). (2015). The Routledge companion to alternative and community media (pp. 48-56). London, UK: Routledge.
Axford, B. (2011). Talk about a revolution: Social media and the MENA uprisings. Globalizations, 8(5), 681-686.
Breuer, A., Landman, T., & Farquhar, D. (2015). Social media and protest mobilization: Evidence from the Tunisian revolution. Democratization, 22(4), 764-792.
Gainous, J., & Wagner, K. M. (2013). Tweeting to power: The social media revolution in American politics. Oxford University Press.
Gladwell, M. (2011). From innovation to revolution-do social media made protests possible: An absence of evidence. Foreign Aff., 90, 153.
Strandberg, K. (2013). A social media revolution or just a case of history repeating itself? The use of social media in the 2011 Finnish parliamentary elections. New media & society, 15(8), 1329-1347.
Treré, E. (2018). Hybrid media activism: Ecologies, imaginaries, algorithms. Routledge.
Waller, L., Dreher, T., & McCallum, K. (2015). The listening key: Unlocking the democratic potential of indigenous participatory media. Media International Australia, 154(1), 57-66.
