ACM701 - Global Media and War

Unit details

Enrolment modes:	(B, X)
Credit point(s):	1
EFTSL value:	0.125
Unit chair:	L Star
Incompatible with:	AIR724
Note: Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.

Content

This unit is an interdisciplinary enquiry into explanations of the relationship between media and war, and struggles for diverse representations in relation to entertainment industry agendas and politically influenced or controlled media. Historical developments in global media representations of conflicts are studied alongside contemporaneous fictional war images in visual popular culture. Spun by protagonists and reported by newsmakers using global information technologies, war and suffering readily become infotechwars and commercial media spectacle.

These issues are considered alongside the psycho-social dynamics of audience interpretations and responses and the influence of alternative and independent anti/war media and practices. Topics include the military's use of video war-games to train combatants, information and surveillance wars, the CNN effect, compassion fatigue and amnesia, and whether mediated violence has become a central constitutive element in personal and group identities like nation and responsibility. Viewing films, television and video games is required.

Assessment

Tutorial presentation (20%); Research Essay, submitted in two parts: Part 1. Proposal, 800 words (20%), Part 2. Essay 3500 words, (60%)

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*	Student Contribution Rate**	Fee rate - Domestic Students	Fee rate - International students
$733	$733	$2452	$2891

* Rate for all CSP students, except for those who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
** Rate for CSP students who commenced Education and Nursing units pre 2010
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.