Course director: Alina Mozolevska (Universität des Saarlandes)
The course examines the mediatization of the Russo-Ukrainian War, focusing on how new media and digital technologies reshape modern warfare. It explores social media, popular culture, and visual practices as spaces of mobilization, artistic resistance, activism, and propaganda, shaping public opinion and wartime narratives. Students gain critical tools to understand how media both challenge and reinforce power and meaning during conflicts. Topics to be covered: the media landscape of the Russo-Ukrainian war; conflict, memory, and media witnessing; popular culture and memetic warfare; visual diplomacy and the politics of war; documenting history in Ukrainian comics; digital participation and artivism; songs of wartime Ukraine; disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda.