Art, Media, and Cultural Politics
Art, Media, and Cultural Politics provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the legal framework governing cultural institutions, the art world, and the media. As a non-law student studying in the humanities and politics spheres, this course has helped me gain a comprehensive understanding of the complex legal issues related to arts, cultural policies, and the promotion of cultural diversity. This course works towards addressing different aspects of culture. We define culture and understand how tangible and intangible cultures operate in society. We conceptualize culture under a legal framework, through media, art, and how all these aspects interact with and influence policy. We delve into cultural law and media law to a great extent, but interestingly, we look into law from a formal and official standpoint but also from a social law perspective too whereas we focus on human interactions, morals, and social issues in context of culture, art, and media. The course has equipped me with a thorough understanding of the domestic and international legal framework governing the media, the arts, and the cultural sector. I have also gained an in-depth understanding of the interactions between universal, regional, and domestic standards on media/press freedom, including its limitations. It helped me learn how to identify and critically discuss specific legal problems in various areas of laws pertaining to the media, such as hate speech, incitement to terror, defamation and privacy law, and intellectual property laws. Moreover, the course has enabled me to have a basic grasp of media regulation, including ownership and licensing processes for broadcasting the audio-visual. We discusses at length various areas of laws pertaining to culture, arts, and the entertainment sector, such as artistic freedom, cultural heritage law, appropriation of cultural expressions, native and indigenous arts, street art, and graffiti.
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The course has equipped me with the necessary knowledge and tools to identify the specific legal issues that are affecting the representation of Copts in Egyptian media. I am now better equipped to critically examine the legal framework governing the media, culture, and the arts in Egypt, and how this framework can be reformed to promote cultural diversity and social integration. This course has shifted my understanding of the complex legal issues related to media representation and cultural politics .I found this picture of native Hawaiian dancers very interesting because we discuss indigenous groups and their culture in depth throughout the course. We discuss issues ranging from cultural appropriation to cultural preservation of these cultures and how there are societal obligations but also obligations from authority whereas there need to be certain laws dedicated to protecting these groups' culture and their rights to practice them.