However, we will focus on relatively new technologies that bring greater awareness of these issues to diverse audiences (for example, the recording of police brutality on cell-phone cameras and the emergence of the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag on social media websites). Attention will be given to longstanding problems, including institutionalized racism and the discrimination/oppression faced by immigrants, women, and members of the LGBTQ community. This Capstone course provides students with an in-depth overview of the last decade’s major instances of political activism as filtered through the lens of traditional and nontraditional media forms (from documentary films and television series to online blogs and video games). These and many other recent events have entered public consciousness through media, which has long played a significant role in sparking social change. the “Arab Spring”) the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations that brought attention to economic inequality and the 2014 Umbrella Revolution sit-in protests against the Hong Kong government. Examples of politically divisive social movements at home and abroad include: the 2010 pro-democracy uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, and other Middle East countries (i.e. Indeed, the second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed countless examples of protestors around the world taking to the streets in opposition to local and/or global issues. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” These words, spoken by the Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel as part of his 1986 Nobel Peace Prize lecture, are perhaps more relevant today than they were thirty years ago.
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