Schedule

T 1/6 Introductions

TH 1/8 Towards a Definition of Alternative/Radical Media: Examining the Relationships between Culture and Politics, Content and Tactics
Reading: Downing 1, 2

T 1/13 Theories and Approaches to Media and Resistance: Networks, Community and Détournement
Reading: Downing 3, 4, 5; Wikipedia entry Detournment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detournement

TH 1/15 The Whole World is Watching: The Relationship between Mainstream and Activist Media in the 60s
Reading: Todd Giltin hand-out

T 1/20 Radical Media and Resistance in Everyday Life
Reading: Downing 10, 11, 12, 14

TH 1/22 The Press
Reading: Downing 13; Randolph T. Holhut’s A Brief History of American Alternative Journalism in the Twentieth Century http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/history.html; Stephen Perkins’ Approaching the '80s Zine Scene: A Background Survey & Selected Annotated Bibliography http://www.zinebook.com/resource/perkins.html

T1/27 Radio: FIRE; KPFA
Reading: Downing 15, 19, 21; FIRE www.radiofeminista.net
Guest speaker Margie Thompson of FIRE

Th 1/29 Film and Video
Reading: 16, 20
PAPER PROSPECTUS DUE

T 2/3 Estlow conference http://estlow.org/
Please come at noon to the Cable Center to hear Global Voices Online co-founder Ethan Zuckerman speak, and stay at the conference as long as you can.

Th 2/5 Midterm

T 2/10 Video Activism and the Making of SoleJourney
Guest speakers Sheila Shroeder and Kate Burns

Th 2/12 Field Trip to Denver Open Media 2:30-3:30
Please watch the video “Opening Access” before the fieldtrip http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4708457008927095699

T 2/17 Introduction to Digital Era Activism: The Internet and Mobile Digital Media
Special presentation by Liz Sanchez on mobile technologies and activism
Reading: Downing 17, Meikle 1, 2, TBA

Th 2/19 Power and the Politics of Representation
Reading: Meikle 3,4

T 2/24 no class

Th 2/26 Remix and Intellectual Property Reform
Reading: Lawerence Lessig Remix, introduction, link to come
Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/

T 3/3 Culture Jamming/Hacking
Reading: Meikle 5,6,7

Th 3/5 The Yes Men

T 3/10 Presentations
RESEARCH PAPER DUE