The University of Queensland Australia developed the global media, war, and technology free for international participant who is interested to learn online. During the course, participants will involve emerging new terrain where violent conflict, information technology, and global media intersect. Moreover, focusing on where the old distinctions among battlefront and home front, between soldier and civilian, between public and private, are being redrawn. Additionally, the course covers the lectures through lecture videos, questionnaires, and discussion fora. Besides, practical, experiential elements through crowdsourcing, individual research, critical viewing, media, and image analysis.

Details:

• Location: online                                                                                                Free access to this course will expire on: November 30, 2022
• Duration: 7 weeks (2-4 hours weekly)                                                    Certificate price: 199 USD Dollars
• Field of study: Humanities                                                                           Level of study: introduction
• Instruction language: English                                                                      Video transcript: English
• Type of course: Self-Pace on your time                                                   Course developer: University of Queensland Australia
• Course organizer: edX                                                                                   Course instructor: Sebastian Kaempf

Course syllabus:

• First week: global media and war history and context introduction.
• The second week: media sphere transformation and media revolution from multipolar to a heteropolar medias cape.
• The third week: today’s global system of mass surveillance analysis of the scale and scope.
• Fourth week: visual politics and conflict focused on conflict through an analysis of images related to current events.
• Fifth week: focus on the changing role of media, through war.
• Sixth week: the military-industrial media-entertainment complex and growing collaboration among militaries, Hollywood film studios, and the commercial gaming sector.
• Seventh week: non-state military actors and media.

What participants will learn:

During the course participants will be familiar with the following topics:

• Global media and technology history and evolution.
• Major theme and trends of international media during the war.
• History application and themes significant of international media to current issues.
• Critical media consumer skills.

How to apply for Global Media, War and Technology free online course?

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