Sandra Ristovska, PhD, sees her research and filmmaking as interrelated endeavors through which she explores how visual media facilitate processes of knowledge acquisition and how they influence institutional and legal decision-making. In particular, her work looks at questions around visual evidence and human rights across journalistic, legal, policy and activist settings.
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human rights, visual culture/communication, visual evidence, visual advocacy, global media activism, social movements, ethnography, documentary filmmaking
MDST 1001 - Foundations of Media Studies
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Fall 2018 / Summer 2019
Introduces students to key issues and debates and contemporary applications of critical media studies focusing on economic, social, political and cultural implications. Provides an understanding of the relationship between theory and practice and equips students with the tools to critically analyze various forms of textual transmission.
MDST 2002 - Media and Communication History
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Spring 2018
Examines the historical development of communication forms, tools, technologies and institutions (orality, writing, printing, photography, film, radio, television, computers, internet); their influence on culture (forms of expression and social relationships); and their impact on social and individual experience. Applies knowledge of communication history to contemporary social issues and problems in media and society, domestically and internationally.
MDST 3002 - Digital Culture and Politics
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
Examines issues at the intersection of digital media, culture and politics, such as regulation and network architecture, piracy and hacking, and grassroots activism. Engage with a range of theories about cultural politics, democracy, liberalism and neo-liberalism in relation to digital information and communication technologies.
MDST 7051 - Qualitative Research Methods in Media
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Spring 2019
Examines various methods of qualitative data gathering and analysis in the mass and social media context. Formerly CMCI 7051.
