/ Fall 24-25 /
Syllabus
Syllabus Adjusted (September War)
Course Sheet
Course Description
What exactly is the relationship between media and the environment? Will digital media platforms help solve the global climate crisis or, on the contrary, are media just material burdens on the environment, destroying natural reserves and polluting the world with toxic waste? In this course, we will begin to answer these questions by examining the role that media have played in shaping the built and natural environments around us. Drawing on developments in environmental communication and critical media infrastructure studies, we will consider media both as modes of communication and also as technologies with material forms. Acknowledging that media have played an important role in determining what we understand the environment to be, in this course we will examine the genres and communication strategies that activists, artists, and media producers have used in order to articulate the environment and its problems for the public. At the same time, we will explore how media networks have demanded physical infrastructures that profoundly changed natural environments and the communities that surround them. Through discussions and critical and creative projects, we will dispel the most commonly-held myths about media and the environment, while also working towards establishing our own visions of what environmental justice looks like.
Course Highlight
Project 2 – Zines
