Final Project

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1) The focus of the project should be on the media products, strategies, tactics, dissemination and so on. Find out how media is being used and to what end. What are the aims (of the group, individual, or organization) and how to they use media to achieve them? Are they trying to change how people think? Are they trying to influence policy? Are they trying to raise awareness? Are they drawing on traditional methods or protest or are they breaking new ground? Are they trying to get mainstream media attention or are they communicating outside the mainstream?

2) You must conduct an interview or interviews with the activist media producers or the people designing the media strategies.

3) You might also want to interview fans, supporters, community members related to the media you are focusing on.

4) You need to contextualize the work by drawing on theories of media power and resistance that we are studying in class. This means you must draw from some academic sources. For example if you are focusing on an artist you need to include a discussion about the relationship between art and activism.

5) Extra credit is given to work that is particularly theoretically rigorous or work that can be of some promotional or other use by the group or person you are focusing on.

6) If you are doing something other than a paper you must include a written component that describes a) the research you did and what you found out (including interview(s) with your subject and theoretical context that informs your work); b) a explanation of why you made what you did; c) any other relevant information you want to include. This written component should be at least 6 double-spaced pages.

7) If you are writing a paper only, the paper should be 10-15 double-spaced pages.

The project is due the last day of class.

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