IKC407 First Nations and Media: Seeing Knowledge, Seeing Power (8)

This subject critically investigates non-Indigenous understandings and mediated constructions of First Nations peoples. The subject explores how we see and know ourselves and others through a variety of media including memes, gifs, video games, news, films and television shows. The historical role of media in rationalising settler colonisation and its use by First Nations peoples to challenge colonial and racial stereotyping will be outlined. The subject explores the differences between First Nations and non-Indigenous produced media and the ethical, cultural, and political implications of this.

Availability

Session 2 (60)
Online
Dubbo Campus

Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: IKC407. Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Indigenous Australian Studies

Prerequisites

IKC403 and IKC404

Subject Relationships

IKC403 Prerequisite subject
IKC404 Prerequisite subject

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • be able to critically investigate the media as multi-modal racialising space for both First Nations and non-Indigenous peoples;
  • be able to research and develop a research topic on the historical and colonial contexts of First Nations and non-Indigenous produced media;
  • be able to enact media and racial literacies with a critical understanding of standpoint in relation to First Nations' experiences of Australian media and history;
  • be able to reflexively critique racial stereotyping in representations of First Nations peoples across a variety of media;
  • be able to rewrite and deconstruct media with an awareness of the ethical, cultural, and political implications of media representations of First Nations peoples; and
  • be able to apply theoretical approaches developed by First Nations scholars and media practitioners to analyse the construction of media identities and institutional knowledges and their impact of First Nations lives.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:
  • Module 1: Media and settler colonisation
  • Topic 1: First Nations and Media and Indigenist Standpoint Theory
  • Topic 2: Colonial Knowledge and Indigenous Representation
  • Topic 3: Commodity colonialism
  • Topic 4: Ethnography and the 'Indigenous' Other
  • Module 2: Representation and racial stereotyping
  • Topic 5: Racial Stereotyping and Othering in Modernity
  • Topic 6: Stereotypical Constructions of Indigeneity in the News Media
  • Topic 7: Automating racism through algorithms
  • Topic 8: SportMedia and Indigeneity
  • Module 3: Indigenous Media
  • Topic 9: Indigenous Digitalism
  • Topic 10: Indigenous science fiction
  • Topic 11: Indigenous gaming
  • Topic 12: Indigenous media mobility

The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: June 2022. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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