Instructor: Olga Lazitski Torres
Instructor Emails: olgalazitskaya@gmail.com
Dates: July 7 - July 27
Schedule: 9am - 4pm (Lunch from 11:30am - 1:30pm)
Location: TBD
Room: TBD
This course will focus on the analysis of news media and its role in sustaining (or undermining) a democratic life and political culture. Particular attention will be paid to analyzing media practices and their embeddedness in social, economic and political conditions, highlighting how journalism portrays marginalized communities and social issues. More specifically, we’ll explore how racial and ethnic identities are constructed, reified, or subverted by representations in mass media and the digital news environment. In addition, we’ll consider the potential of the web as a democratizing force and the changing nature of what’s considered news and how it provides opportunities for agency and activism in response to social injustice and historical biases. By exploring traditional journalistic norms in the context of today’s communication dynamics (including technology, policy, politics, and culture), we will better understand the challenges, benefits, and limitations of mass media in representing, reifying, and transforming social reality. As a result, students will have an opportunity to reflect on the ways in which media shape social experience, practices and discourses.
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*Courses vary by experience and exposure to content. Instructors have the ability to change content and pace to serve the needs of students. Courses have been modified for online teaching.