Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313227 Media, Communication and Culture | OT | 0 | 2 |
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Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Case analysis | 30 | 1.2 | 9, 1, 7 |
Review of theories of development and communication for social change | 30 | 1.2 | 9, 1 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Design of a communication project for social change | 40 | 1.6 | 9, 1, 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Readings, seminar dynamics. | 50 | 2 | 9, 1, 7 |
1. The realization of a specific communicative project for a social group, a Third Sector organization or a development cooperation organization, taking into account the key lines of the communication for social change discipline. Alternatively, a task of theoretical reflection or critical analysis and reformulation of a practical case may also be carried out. This project or the analysis must be previously agreed with the lecturer. (50%)
2. Reading workshop that the students will have to prepare and present in class, as a previous step to the debate on the issues and ideas addressed in the texts. In the session following the debate on each reading, a critical assessment of the debate will have to be handed in with a length of no more than 2,000 words. (25%)
3. Analysis, presentation and discussion in class of case studies of communication strategies for development and/or social change. (25%)
Reassessment:
Only the communicative project/analysis can be retaken, applying the knowledge acquired in the course and following the guidelines provided by the teacher in the grade review process. The grades of the other two evaluative activities will be kept to make a weighted average with the final grade of the improved project.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Analysis and discussion of case studies | 25% | 0 | 0 | 5, 9, 6, 1, 8, 7 |
Collaborative workshop on reference readings | 25% | 0 | 0 | 5, 9, 6, 1, 8 |
Design of a communication project for social change or alternative work | 50% | 0 | 0 | 9, 4, 3, 2, 1, 7 |
Basic bibliography:
BELTRÁN, Luis Ramiro (2005): "La comunicación para el desarrollo en Latinoamérica. Un recuento de medio siglo". Available on: https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/anagramas/article/view/1117/1090
DAVIS, Aeron; FENTON, Natalie, FREEDMAN, Des; & KHIABANY, Gholam. (2020). Media, Democracy and Social Change. Re-imagining Political Communications. London: Sage.
De-ANDRÉS, Susana & CHAPARRO, Manuel. (2022). Comunicación radical. Despatriarcalizar, descolonizar y ecologizar la cultura mediática. Barcelona: Gedisa.
GUMUCIO DAGRON, Alfonso. (2001): Haciendo Olas, Historias de comunicación participativa para el cambio social. La paz: Fundación Rockefeller.
GUMUCIO DAGRON, Alfonso & TUFTE, Thomas. (2008): Antología de comunicación para el cambio social: lecturas históricas y contemporáneas. SouthOrange, NJ: Consorcio de Comunicación para el Cambio Social.
GWINN WILKINS, Karen; TUFTE, Thomas; & OBREGÓN, Rafael. (2014): The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
HAN, Byung-Chul. (2022). Infocracia. La digitalización y la crisis de la democracia. Barcelona: Taurus.
JONES, Owen (2013). Chavs: la demonización de la clase obrera. Madrid: Capitán Swing.
PAXTON,Robert (2006): Anatomía del fascismo. Madrid: Capitán Swing.
PIKETTY, Thomas (2019). Capital e ideología. Barcelona: Ediciones Deusto.
SCOTT, Martin. (2014). Media and development. London: Zed Books.
SERVAES, Jan. (2021). Learning from Communicators in Social Change. Rethinking the Power of Development. Singapor: Springer.
THOMAS, Pradip Ninan (2019). Communication for Social Change: Context, Social Movements and the Digital. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi: Sage.
TUFTE, Thomas. (2015). Comunicación para el cambio social. La participación y el empoderamiento como base para el desarrollo mundial. Barcelona: Icaria.
WILKINSON, Richard; & PICKETT, Kate (2019). Igualdad: Cómo las sociedades más igualitarias mejoran el bienestar colectivo. Madrid: Capitán Swing.
VV.AA. (2009): Metodologías participativas. Manual. Madrid: CIMAS. Available on: https://www.redcimas.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/manual_2010.pdf
This bibliography will be complemented with additional readings that will be discussed in the reading workshop.
The module does not require the knowledge of specialized software beyond the usual office automation packages.