Media and the People, as a Vessel for Political Perspectives
The process of my studies and research integrates media and politics through a visualization of the context of what it means to have a political voice and how many minorities need that voice, so they project it through their own forms of media. This Presentation will discuss issues such as disinformation and oppression through media censorship, and how they are combated with various formats of activism, whether it’s political/fictional documentaries or alternative media of minorities. My curiosity with the integration of both topics peaked when I began to observe real-life political crises and how the media aids these crises in different ways and this was one of the major results of this capstone minor. This has overall allowed me to reflect on how certain communities in the media react to the mainstream or combat political authorities through their own creation of media.
Faculty Mentor: Prof. Banu Akdenizli
E-portfolio: https://sites.google.com/u.northwestern.edu/mediapolitics-alanoudm
