Postgraduate Course: Digital activism: Power and protest around the world (PGSP11495)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Have a critical understanding of the complex roles currently played by alternative online and social media in different forms of protest and political resistance around the world
- Be able to critically analyse, evaluate and synthesize academic arguments about the characteristics of digital activism, and its effects.
- 3. Develop extensive, detailed and specialised understandings of how the various practices involved in digital activism are shaped by particular geographic, cultural and military contexts, as well as political and economic structures
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Reading List
Barassi, V. (2015) Activism on the web: everyday struggles against digital capitalism. London: Routledge.
Fenton, N. (2016) Digital, Political, Radical. London: Wiley and Sons
Kavada, A. (2015) Creating the Collective: social media, the Occupy Movement and its constitution as a collective actor. Information Communication and Society 8 872-886
Joyce, M. (ed) (2010). Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change. International Debate Education Association.
Lievrouw, L. (2011) Alternative and Activist New Media. Cambridge: Polity Press
Rambukkana, N. (2015). Hashtag Publics: the Power and Politics of Discursive Networks. New York: Peter Lang
Tufekci, Z. (2017) Twitter and Tear Gas: the Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Yale. Yale University Press.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Graduates will become familiar with a variety of different ICT applications, and the ways in each are used to communicate by campaigners and other activists. They'll develop understandings of ethical and professional decision-making, concerning some of the difficulties and risks which digital media pose to activists and others; becoming familiar with the political and economic considerations involved in digital anonymity, surveillance and data harvesting. They'll have the opportunity to develop relationships with specialised practitioners and to refine their ability to work autonomously, as well as with peers. |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Kate Wright
Tel: (0131 6)51 1480
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Course secretary | Mr Lee Corcoran
Tel: (0131 6)51 5122
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