| Course description: | A survey of U.S. social movements that focuses specifically on how social change agents have used communication and how communication scholars understand social change. Exploration will include civic journalism and/or alternative methods for accessing the public from marginalized perspectives (by groups relegated to the so-called ‘fringe’ by the mainstream. The course will investigate other types of ‘agenda setting’ other than the primary one of news media to audience, and how those impact society and culture. (Odd F) |
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