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Media and Migration - JKM204
Title: Media and Migration
Czech title: Média a migrace
Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 5
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (15)
Min. number of students: 10
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Annamária Neag, D.Phil.
Class: Courses for incoming students
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Annotation
Last update: Annamária Neag, D.Phil. (31.01.2022)
The aim of this online course is to introduce students to the complex and interconnected fields of media and migration. The students will gain in-depth knowledge on topics such as the news coverage of the 2015 ‘migration crisis’, the importance of social media platforms in migration processes or the question of transnational intimacy and identity. The course builds on both lectures and lively interactions, discussions and co-analysis of media texts. The course will take place on Zoom.
Please enrol to our Moodle page here: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=4445
Pedagogue of the course is Dr Annamária Neag.
Literature
Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (29.01.2021)

Literature:

Alencar, A. (2019). Digital place-making practices and daily struggles of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil. In Smets, K et al (Eds.) The SAGE handbook of media and migration. SAGE. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332131123_Digital_Place-Making_Practices_and_Daily_Struggles_of_Venezuelan_Forced_Migrants_in_Brazil

Chouliaraki, L., Georgiou, M., Zaborowski, R. and W. Ooomen. (2017). The European „migration crisis” and the media. A cross-European press content analysis. https://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documents/research/projects/media-and-migration/Migration-and-media-report-FINAL-June17.pdf

De Block, L. and Buckingham, D. (2008). Global children, global media: Migration, media and childhood. Palgrave. Selection.

Foote, D. (2017). Laowai: Contested identity and imagined community among Shanghai's expatriates. https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10289/11122/thesis.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=6 Selection.

Georgiou, M. and Zaborowski, R. (2017). Media coverage of the “refugee crisis”:  A cross-European perspective. Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

 

Hondagneu-Sotelo P. and Avila E. ( 1997). ‘I’m Here, but I’m There’: The meanings of Latina transnational motherhood. Gender and Society 11(5), 538-571.

 

Kaufmann, K. (2019). Mobile methods: Doing migration research with the help of smartphones. In Smets, K et al (Eds.) The SAGE handbook of media and migration. SAGE.

 

Madianou, M., & Miller, D. (2011). Mobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children. New Media & Society, 13(3), 457–470. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444810393903

Molnar, P. (2020). Technological Testing Grounds. Migration management experiments and reflections from the ground up. EDRi. Retrieved from: https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Technological-Testing-Grounds.pdf

 

Teaching methods
Last update: Annamária Neag, D.Phil. (25.01.2022)

There will be a number of required readings from books, newspapers, academic journals. Reading is mandatory (but also fun) because we will base our discussions on these.  Because of the interactive approach of the course and because I am genuinely interested in your views, your presence is very important. I would appreciate if you would also turn your camera on so that we can see and understand each other.

 

Platform: Zoom

Requirements to the exam
Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (29.01.2021)

The final grade will be comprised by the grade given for class activity (the debates) and the grade for the final project (40%+60%). For the final project, students can choose whether to do an art-based project (e.g. video, poster, campaign) and an explanatory, supplemental essay (1500 words) or an essay of 2500 words based on the topics of the course. Plagiarism is strongly discouraged and may result in failing the class.

Syllabus
Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (29.01.2021)

Topics:

1)    Introduction to the field of digital migration studies and overview of syllabus

2)    The ‘migration crisis’ in the news: the media representation of the 2015 events in Europe

3)    A city of our own: urban landscapes, media and migration

4)    Transnational intimacy: ‘doing family’ online

5)    Debate: The Merkel-selfie and challenging Facebook – student-led

6)    Diasporic community (re)production

7)    Datafication and surveillance

8)    Debate: We need that data – student-led

9)    Inclusive media literacy education for diverse societies

10) Special guest working in the field of migration

11) Researching migration and media: from visual analysis to (digital) ethnography

12) Recap and students’ presentation of final project ideas

 
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