This interactive and discussion-oriented course provides an introduction to the politics and tactics underlying five broad categories of media activism: media interventions at the levels of representation- labor relations- policy- strategic communication- and "alternative" media making. The course will rely on both a survey of the existing scholarship on media activism- as well as close analyses of actual activist practices within both old and new media. As a class- we will examine a wide-range of digital media as well as local- national- and global media activist institutions.