Handbook

This subject explores the powerful role played by the media in both creating inequalities and fighting injustice. We cover key contemporary issues from the blood minerals in our everyday media devices and news coverage of refugee crises to the increasing prominence of celebrity culture in global movements for justice. We also delve into historical roots of social injustice looking at how media discourses of orientalism gave rise to problems continuing today. The subject emphasises media that you may not normally think of in connection with social injustice. Examples may include the politics of maps or the use of music or other expressive media in social movements. This subject will expand your knowledge of global media and of the ways in which media make a difference to the lives of people in many and diverse cultures. In assessments for this subject you will have the opportunity to focus on one of these issues in more depth making use of images and words to communicate what you find.