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Course Outline
Welcome!
Project analysis
Elaborate a case study in order to develop, analyse and characterise the
context, the cultural and the social implications of a case of your interest in
relation to your semester project.
Such analysis of the project should cover the different aspects, dimensions and
points of view that will be addressed during the course.
The objective is to make a presentation of your case to the rest of the class.
There will be time allocated to work on this analyses in class. In the last
session you will present your case for discussion in class.
You are free to choose the media you prefer for this presentation. Be as
creative as you want, but remember that the analysis of the case and the
conceptual framework that you use are the most important issues of your
presentations.
2) What is culture?
What is digital culture?
A tip for understanding culture The culture/nature dichotomy.
What is westerns Modernity?
Culture as a mental process.
What is non-digital culture?
When did it become digital? What is the difference?
Material supports for cultural products the media, the channel.
The flow of culture, what is it that flows? The content Where is it
generated?
7) Globalization, Sustainability
and the risk society
Sustainable multimedia.
Multimedia related social/health hazzards.
Ethics Environmental and social responsibility.
Privacy Exclusion.
Credibility and reliability of information sources.
Information control information imperialism.
Energy consumption paper vs. electricity comsumption.
Dependence on digital culture and electricity.
Attention deficit disorder: quantity vs. quality.
Syllabus
Date
Contents
Reading
No reading to be done :-)
Sept. 6 (am/pm)
Sept. 13 (am/pm)
Sept. 20 (am/pm)
Sept. 27 (am/pm)
Oct. 4 (am/pm)
Oct. 11 (am)
Nov. 8 (am)
Nov. 15 (am)
Selected articles
Implications and impacts of
digital culture I.
The work of the medialogist:
applications of digital
Implications
technology I.and impacts of
digital culture II.
The work of the medialogist:
applications of digital
technology II.
Digital culture in the
Semiosphere.
Globalization, Sustainability
and the risk society.
Conclusions and
presentations.
Selected articles