MC407 Half Unit
International Media and The Global South
This information is for the 2015/16 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Shakuntala Banaji STC. S103
Availability
This course is available on the MSc in Global Media and Communications (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ and USC), MSc in Media and Communications, MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society), MSc in Media and Communications (Media and Communications Governance), MSc in Media and Communications (Research), MSc in Media, Communication and Development and MSc in Politics and Communication. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
In order to accommodate academic staff research leave and sabbaticals, and in order to maintain smaller seminar group sizes, this course is capped, meaning that there is a limit to the number of students who can be accepted. Whilst we do our best to accommodate all requests, we cannot guarantee you a place on this course.
Course content
This course challenges students to raise questions about the power and role of international media - including media originating in the global south - in shaping global discourses about development, citizens and the global south. Building on empirical examples, the lectures aim to dem