Welcome to a K3 seminar with Margareta Melin, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies, K3.

The title of the seminar is Learning Life Itself. Risk and Resilience in Media and Communication Education

It will take place on Wednesday, March 16 at 10.15-12.00. It will be a hybrid seminar. Please either come to room NiB0501 or join online here:

https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/64675687916 (this is the zoom link to all K3 seminars this term).

Here is an abstract for the seminar:

This seminar will focus on an article I am presently working on. The article argues that media education needs to change in times of substantial changes to the media industry and challenges from society at large. There is however little research within Media and Communication Studies that could guide media educators. If media education should provide society with ethical, democratic, reflexive, competent change agents, risk and resilience should be incorporated into an active media didactic design of courses and modules. Higher education should provide learning for life and learning to live. The article is empirically based on a case study of two media education modules in media production, which runs like a red thread through the first two years of a Swedish Media and Communication bachelor course. The syllabus and course structure, student assessments, and interviews with lectures were analysed theoretically based on risk and resilience models. Results show that when risk, resilience are introduced, both students and lecturers are uncertain, and particularly students are frustrated and even angry at the lack of firm rules to adhere to. By the second year, students are however used to the not-knowing, and embrace the possibilities it gives. The article concludes that resilience is something built over time, for lectures and students alike. Working collaboratively aid this process again for both lecturers and students.