The last decade has brought about a new form of social movements, campaigning, and expressing dissent. New technologies and social media networks have made it easier and faster to build an opposition, form activist groups online, and to address collective ideas about social justice. This seminar will focus on three different social movements that emerged from online campaigning and have shaped the US-American political sphere severely: the Black Lives Matter movement, an Indigenous-led anti-pipeline movement, as well as the anti-abortion controversy that is recently boiling up again with new abortion laws in Texas. In order to study and understand those movements, we will discuss definitions and concepts that revolve around the topic of social movements (what are they? What is protest and what is dissent?), their organization and mobilization tactics, social media usage, identity politics, counterpublics and discourses those movements amplify. As a methodological framework we will make use of instruments of discourse analysis as well as framing theory in social movements.
Required Readings and additional information will be made available in October.
22.10.2021: 16-17:30 Uhr Vorbesprechung des Blockseminars
10.12.2021: 13-18 Uhr Block I
11.12.21: 9-18 Uhr Block II
12.12.21: 9-17 Uhr Block III
Studienleistung: excerpts and student-guided discussion of required reading
Prüfungsleistung: poster presentation (presentations will take place in January 2022)
Admission settings
The course is part of admission "Zeitgesteuerte Anmeldung: Blockseminar Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft V: (Social) Media and Protest".
The following rules apply for the admission:
The enrolment is possible from 04.10.2021, 08:00 to 20.10.2021, 16:00.
