Urban Mobile Media: The Myth and Messiness of Connectivity (2024/2025: Periode 2)

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In this course we will investigate the relationship between digital (mobile) media and everyday urban culture. The course will enhance your theoretical understanding of rapidly developing developments, which are variously labeled media architecture, urban informatics, urban screen culture, and smart cities. You will become familiar with the main themes, concepts and approaches in this multidisciplinary field through academic work but also policy, industry and civic initiatives. Each class session you work on developing an original research approach for your individual assignment. You will learn to position yourself academically by developing ways to inquire, analyze and reflect on digital media in relation to city life; practice presenting your results in written and oral form according to academic standards.

Vakinhoudelijk

In a short time-span, mobile media interfaces have become part and parcel of everyday urban life. Think for instance of watching Netflix on the go while traveling, navigating through the city using digital maps, searching for a date based on physical proximity, collectively experiencing outdoor media art projections, or Quantified Self sport trackers and health apps. So-called “smart cities” experiment with digital media like sensors, data, the internet of things and social media dashboards to optimize urban life. Hence, urban mobile media constitute the very infrastructures, practices, and institutional arrangements on which urban life itself is based, and shape how we live, work, travel, spend leisure time, and meet others. In this course, we investigate the many ways in which digital media and urban life intersect. After the Introductory meeting, we explore this through weekly topics: Past, Places, Data, Interfaces, Relations, Cultures.

Aanvullende informatie

Career orientation:
The course will train professional communicative skills during assignments, and stimulate visiting relevant cultural events.

Werkvormen

Seminar
Toelichting

Class meetings consist of team presentations, discussions about the course literature, plenary lectures, and individual/group work on assignments.

Bijdrage

Students will collaborate in teams and prepare one team presentation, review each other's work, and give constructive feedback during class and outside of class.

Voorbereiding

Students prepare by reading compulsory literature, by finding additional relevant literature independently, by weekly formulating at least two propositions for debate, and by preparing and carrying out research for their individual assignment.

Toetsing

Portfolio

Verplicht | Weging 70% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 3,5

Referaat

Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 1,5

Students are graded on their ability to 1) gain specialized knowledge of and insight into mobile media studies, 2) independently identify, analyse, and criticize relevant research problems that relate to current debates in both media theory and media practice, and 3) present their findings to an audience composed of specialists as well as non-specialists in written and oral forms of academic expression.

Preliminary proposal individual assignment in week 3.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Je moet inschreven staan voor een van de volgende opleidingen:

  • Film and Television Cultures
  • New Media and Digital Culture

Voorkennis

Theories, methods, practices, and debates in the field of media and/or urban studies.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

Research Lab I, New Media Theories, State of the Art.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • SYLLABUS
    Course readings are available online, and are accessible through links in the course manual.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Coördinator

dr. M.L. de Lange M.L.deLange@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. M.L. de Lange M.L.deLange@uu.nl
dr. M.E. Wong m.e.wong@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Let op: deze cursus is niet toegankelijk voor studenten van andere faculteiten, bijvakkers mogen zich dus niet inschrijven.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 3 juni 2024 tot en met vrijdag 21 juni 2024

Na-inschrijving
Van maandag 21 oktober 2024 tot en met dinsdag 22 oktober 2024

Inschrijving niet geopend
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