Media and Communication Studies: Digital Technologies, Activism, and Social Movements

Education facts

Code: KK652A

From Fridays4Future, #metoo, and Black Lives Matter; to reactionary far-right mobilisations opposing social justice policies, multiculturalism, and feminism; new waves of social movements have swept across the world. These movements are all intricately linked to digital technologies, from hashtag activism to mainstream media. This course explores the complex relationship between media, digital technologies, and social movement activism, and the changes and continuities of this relationship over time. It brings together theories from Media and Communication Studies, Communication for Development, Sociology, and Political Science, to critically examine the role of both legacy media and new digital technologies in contemporary forms of activism, as well as to trace historically how activism and media have developed in tandem to create significant political, social, and cultural changes.

Entry requirements

45 cr. advanced level studies, and the equivalent of Swedish higher secondary school English 6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Media and Communication Studies: Digital Technologies, Activism, and Social Movements

  Malmö University

  MALMÖ

  Start date: 9 November 2026

  End date: 17 January 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %