MKAS2 Multicultural Relationships with Media and Citizenship, 5 ECTS

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MKAS2 Multicultural Relationships with Media and Citizenship 5 ECTS

Organised by

Master's Programme in Media Literacy Education
Media Education

Person in charge

Sirkku Kotilainen

Corresponding course units in the curriculum

School of Communication, Media and Theatre
Curricula 2015 – 2017

MKAS2 Multicultural Relationships with Media and Citizenship 5 ECTS

Belongs to following study modules

Keywords

Strategic themes: Internationalisation, Sustainable development

Learning outcomes

The student understands the significance of media and information literacies in multicultural learning environments. The student can analyze comparative research on the uses of media and global aspects of media literacy education.

The course includes viewpoints on the multiculturalism in audience research and comparative research on the uses of media. Moreover, the contents include global viewpoints to media and information literacies and education and intercultural global education.

Teaching methods

Teaching method	Contact	Online
Lectures	16 h	0 h
Independent work	20 h	0 h

Lectures 16 hours and a working paper. Information and details during the lectures.

Teaching language

English

Modes of study

Option 1

Available for:

Degree Programme Students
Other Students
Open University Students
Doctoral Students
Exchange Students

Participation in course work

In Finnish

Exercise(s)

In Finnish

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

The uses of the literature will be agreed in the beginning of lectures: two publications of the list:

Ingegerd Rydin & Ulrica Sjöberg (toim.) Mediated Crossroads: Identity, Youth Culture and Ethnicity. Göteborg: Nordicom. 2008.

Bailey O, Georgiou M and Harindranath R (eds) Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-Imagining Diaspora. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Kangas, Sonja (ed.)(2011) Digital Pioneers Cultural drivers of Future Media Culture. Helsinki: Finnish Youth Research Network, Online Publications:

[http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/julkaisuja/digitalpioneers.pdf]

Carlsson, Tayie, Jacquinot-Delaunay, Perez (eds.) (2008) Empowerment through Media Education. An Intercultural Dialogue. NORDICOM.

Frau-Meigs, Divina & Torrent, Jordi (eds.) (2009) Mapping Media Education Policies in the World. United Nations, Alliance for Civilizations, Unesco, European Comission, Gurpo Communicar. [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001819/181917e.pdf]

Perez-Tornero, Varis (2010) Media Literacy and New Humanism. United Nations & Unesco Institue for Information Technologies in Education. [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001921/192134e.pdf]