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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 Carbon
Digital Infrastructures
E-Waste
Climate in the Public Sphere
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 | 101 |
Total | 125 |
Not applicable to this module.
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Not yet recorded.
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Tues 12:00 - 12:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 | Wed 10:00 - 10:50 |