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Dec 30, 2024
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MASS 134 - Social Movements and Communication in Latin AmericaSemester Hours: 3
This course examines how social movements in the Americas have deployed mass communication as a tool of their grassroots mobilizing efforts across the continent. Using historical and contemporary case studies in the region, students will be introduced to the variety of strategies that have been applied by indigenous, peasant, Afro-descendant, immigrant, student, and women’s organizations to contest the political, social, and economic status quo in their respective countries. From Bolivian Miner’s Radio in the 1940s to the Zapatista National Liberation Front in Mexico in the 1990s, from community-published newspapers to contemporary social media campaigns, we will critically assess the successes and the challenges of constructing a bottom-up counter-narrative to the mainstream, corporate-commercial media system in Latin America, and within the Latino immigrant communities in the North.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
MASS 001 . This course is the same as LACS 112 .
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