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Language, Media and Peace 3 credits / 9 weeks weeks Professor Daniela Ingruber Communication is based on language. Language consists of symbols, which can be words, melodies, icons, mems, dress-codes, architecture and much more. All those symbols influence our life and the way we perceive information. One and the same word (= symbol) can be used for friendly, so-called neutral and violent communication. The meaning mostly depends on frameworks, customs, experiences and emotions. It is the media that influence all of them, sometimes informing us, on the other hand manipulating and making us believe that some interpretation is a natural, an obligatory or a necessary one. The aim of this course is to look at different aspects of language, communication and their use on the media. There is a huge system of hierarchy behind all languages. Systems of symbols (= languages) are able to support our creativity, but they also create socio-geopolitical, marginalising concepts and thoughts, which in the end can emphasise peace, conflict or war. Is there something like a peace-language?
Daniela Ingruber
Daniela Ingruber is a war researcher, specialised on war photography, film and the ethical aspects of media-production, and a journalist and editor. She also works for the Diagonale – the Austrian Film Festival, as a political consultant as well as a writer for film productions. Besides her position at UPEACE she is a faculty member of the UNESCO Chair for Peace at the University of Innsbruck/Austria. |
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