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Curricular information is subject to change
On successful completion of the course students will be able to demonstrate:
1) A historical and contemporary understanding of the role of digital media within climate politics.
2) A meaningful engagement with the material and environmental impacts of digital media technologies and infrastructures.
3) Recognition of the challenges and conflicts surrounding how climate and environmental issues, policies, and transitions are communicated and mediated across uneven global divides.
4) A familiarity with various methodologies for researching and confronting the intersections of digital media and climate.
5) Critical reflection on how digital media represents a site of struggle and possibility in the formation and creation of alternative climate futures beyond collapse.
Indicative module content (topics/schedule subject to change):
Media and the Environment
Understanding Climate in Space and Time
Media and Fossil Fuels
Digital Infrastructures
E-Waste
Climate Change in the Public Sphere
Social Media Activism
Mediating Sustainability and “Greenwashing”
Mediating Environmental Struggle
Living Digitally in a Climate-Changed World
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 201 |
Total | 225 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Participation in Learning Activities: Participation in learning activities | Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 | Graded | No | 10 |
No |
Assignment(Including Essay): Mid-term essay | Week 8 | Graded | No | 40 |
No |
Individual Project: Final project | Week 12 | Graded | No | 50 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Not yet recorded.