Introduction to Comparative Media Studies

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Cursusdoel

After completing this course students are able to:
  • recognize, name and describe basic theories, methods and tools in media studies (assessed trough critical analyses, and final written assignment)
  • test and apply these theories, methods and tools on specific case studies (assessed trough presentation and final written assignment);
  • identify how these theories, methods and tools interact with other fields of studies (assessed trough final written assignment);
  • express their findings both orally and on paper (assessed trough critical analyses, presentation, and final written assignment).

Vakinhoudelijk

Course was previously coded UCHUMMAP12

Our contemporary world is deeply permeated with media and new technologies that inherently influence the way we communicate, transfer knowledge, exchange information, offer representations, and experience reality and its possible imaginaries. This course traces the development of such media technologies (print media, telephony, radio, television, film, internet, mobiles, games) and accounts for their historical transformations, while focusing on their intermedial character and their relation to other arts (literature, photography, performing arts, painting, architecture, music).
In order to do so, the course takes into account archeological and philosophical notions of media and how new forms of communication exert social, cultural and political influences in a global context. In particular the course addresses fandom and popular culture, gender and race in networked spaces, convergence culture, intellectual property, the role and function of social networks in the redefinition of the public sphere, notions of citizenship and democracy, and the future of digital humanities.
Format
The course is highly theoretical, and runs for fifteen weeks, divided into three periods of five weeks. The first period deals with media archaeology; the second period is reserved for media philosophy; the third period discusses the 'digitalisation' of culture. Students are expected to read and analyze the assigned texts, participate actively in class-discussions, give a presentation, and hand in written assignments.
Lectures are used to introduce weekly topics, seminar settings provide emphasis on analysing and discussing texts concerning the week’s topic, and excursions guarantee that students are encouraged to reflect on media use in everyday life. Students present their findings and take turns in starting off group discussions for which all students must have comprehensively read the weekly texts in advance.


This is not a film, vlog, podcast, or news production course.

Werkvormen

UCU HUM 1 course

Toetsing

Critical analyses

Verplicht | Weging 35% | ECTS 2,63

Final written assignment

Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3

Presentation

Verplicht | Weging 25% | ECTS 1,88

*midterm FEEDBACK*

Niet verplicht

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.

Voorkennis

Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Competenties

  • Academisch schrijven
  • Debatteren / discoursanalyse
  • Interdisciplinariteit
  • Kritisch lezen
  • Onderzoeksvaardigheden
  • Presenteren

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

Materiaal Omschrijving
BOEK Martin Lister et al. New Media: A Critical Introduction (Routledge, 2009), ISBN: 9780415431613

Aanbevolen materiaal

Materiaal Omschrijving
BOEK Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka, Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (University of California Press, 2011), ISBN: 9780520262744

Coördinator

dr. I.O. de Vries I.O.devries@uu.nl

Docenten

dr. I.O. de Vries I.O.devries@uu.nl

Inschrijving

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

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