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FILM 311 Mediating Misinformation Units: 3.00
This course critically evaluates narratives foregrounding the role of social media in the spread of disinformation. In contrast to claims that "fake news" is a product of new media, this course historicizes problematic information in the West as a perennial tool for maintaining existing power hierarchies.
Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Practicum)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Articulate ethical approaches to the problem of media disinformation.
- Critically interrogate the assertion that the past constituted a time of greater political agreement and epistemic consistency.
- Define disinformation in a global context.
- Expand focus from media-centric explanations of disinformation to include considerations of race, gender, economics, corporate interests, state interests, and other historical actors.
- Understand disinformation in historical context by familiarizing with historical examples of disinformation campaigns that reinforced structural inequalities.