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This course is designed to give students a critical understanding of media literacy and mediatized environments in order to understand the role of media narratives in everyday interactions. You receive an extensive overview of the history of media theory from Plato’s allegory of the cave to Internet memes. The first focus is on media ecology: you gain insights into the eco-systems formed by institutions, individuals, and assemblages. The second focus area is critical posthumanism, feminism, and post-colonial studies: you learn to scrutinise the power relations formed by media stakeholders. Finally, you learn to evaluate human-technology-relations and interactions with nonhuman agents.