Learning Outcomes:
Demonstrate understanding of key theoretical and critical concepts and debates around race, media, social justice and relevant theories related to race and identity.
Develop a more sophisticated understanding of the media culture by analysing various processes: production, textual analysis, and reception.
Improve critical skills when analysing media messages and develop a greater ability to participate in constructive dialogues over the relationship between the media, race, and ethnicity.
Develop an understanding of the connections between race, ethnicity and other social divisions – gender, class and sexuality.
Develop well-structured and supported arguments using appropriate academic conventions and scholarly practices.
Contribute to class discussions about race, social justice and media, drawing both from key theoretical concepts and their own personal experiences and observations.
Indicative Module Content:
Introduction: Race, Migration, Media and Assessment
Key Concepts: Race, Racialisation and Racism
Whiteness, Colonial Legacies and the Construction of Irishness
Intersectionality: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
Media Ownership, Racial Capitalism and the Politics of Production
Representation, Stereotyping and the Racialised Gaze
Migration, Asylum and the News Agenda
Crime, Protest and the Mediation of Border Security
Platformed Racism, Digital Culture and Counterpublics
Algorithmic Discrimination and Generative AI
Anti-Racism, Decolonisation and Migrant Self-Representation