This hybrid course surveys emerging media-making and digital advocacy practices through a case study on the digital campaigns for human rights and social justice in the Middle East. Students will study the role of interventions, social media, and tactical tools to support civic agency and participatory action, as well as transform, disrupt or subvert changing…
In this graduate critical production course, students will investigate various methods for producing arguments in both written and visual/aural texts. The particular emphasis of this course will be on learning basic visualization design and evaluation principles: how to acquire, parse, and analyze large datasets; and how to query the data against a particular set of…