School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsMedia, Violence, Protest, TerrorWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101800.2
Discipline: STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY NOT ELSEWHERE CLASSIFIED
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points
About this Unit
This unit investigates the relationship between the media and forms of political resistance constructed as ‘violence’ or ‘terrorism’. Practices and representations of political violence have transformed in the shift to post-modernity and raised questions about the connections between the media, political agency, and processes of globalisation. We will consider traditional and current debates about the media’s relationship to violence; the importance of spectacle in global cultures; the media’s role in the reproduction of hegemony; the changing relationship between the media and the public sphere; and the media’s perceived role in counter-terrorism policy and practice.
Specialisations
| M1025.1 | Media and Visual Cultures | CONTINUING |