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Dec 15, 2025
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MDIA 4012 - Broadcasting for Social Justice: A History of Broadcasting and U.S. Social Movements (1930-Present).
Historical analysis of the manner in which committed educators, media activists, and practitioners have sought to employ the reach of our broadcast media with the emerging struggle for civil/human rights in 20th and 21st century America. Conduct a detailed historical survey of social movements, beginning in the Depression-era, expanding through the birth of the civil-rights movement, anti-war, feminist, environmental, and anti-globalization movements. Of particular interest will be a focus on media examples (Broadcast Reform Movement, educational/public broadcasting, Pacifica radio, Nat’l Fedration of Community Broadcasters, minority production consortia, the Cable Access Movement, media activism on the Internet in a continuation of the struggle for greater public participation.
Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I
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