Revolutionary Media (P5040)
Revolutionary Media
Module P5040
Module details for 2025/26.
30 credits
FHEQ Level 6
Module Outline
On this module you will be studying the transformative effects of new media in historical context. We will explore moments when emergent media have fed into social and political change, and when broad social and political transformations have generated new mediaforms and new communicative practices. The module offers ways in to thinking about these relationships taking a long view of media history, within and across different national contexts.The first part, ‘Revolutions in Media’ will introduce you to a rangeof theoretical perspectives like medium theory; media archaeology, ecology, and even geology; postcolonial media studies; mediatization; and new materialism and infrastructuralism that conceptualise the far-reaching impacts of writing, print, recorded sound and image, telecommunications and the digital at a macro scale. The second part, ‘Media in Revolution’, builds on the first to examine some of the claims made for the role of media, including social media, in particular moments of political transition or crisis (e.g. promoting, preventing or distorting democratic practice) in a range of contemporary case studies.
Module learning outcomes
Demonstrate a broad and systematic understanding of media history and medium theory
Critically evaluate historical and contemporary discourses about emergent media
Apply methods from the module to contextualise contemporary media debates within a broad historical framework
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.
Frame, investigate and analyse an appropriate case study
Communicate findings and analysis clearly and effectively in written form
| Type | Timing | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | 100.00% | |
| Coursework components. Weighted as shown below. | ||
| Essay | A2 Week 1 | 100.00% |
Timing
Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.
Weighting
Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.
| Term | Method | Duration | Week pattern |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Semester | Seminar | 2 hours | 11111111111 |
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