Kursthemen
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Introducion - digital media literacy (an overview of terms and concepts)
Concepts:
contents, user, prosumer, web 2.0, code, sharing, digital literacy, digital nativism and digital migration, participation, UGC, add-ons, twitter, Instagram, selfie (selfie city), cloud, social media, digital media, digital culture, augmented reality (google, medicine, drone culture), quantified self (biotracking, digital medicine, dna and digital code, big data and personalized med.), archive, digital black hole (forgotten century), digital ecosystem, evolution, prosthesis, artificial intelligence, gamification, open world, sandbox, linear games, gaming and proprioception, gaming and learning, transmedia, media convergence (subjectivity, labour, storytelling), media archaeology, digital democracy, real-time, cyber warfare, surveillance, privacy…
Suggested reading:
Vincent Miller: Understanding Digital Culture. Sage. 2011. Introduction.
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History of Media - traditional media
Suggested reading:
assigned chapters from:
Angharad N. Valdivia (ed): A Companion to Media Studies. Blackwell, 2003
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History of Media - digital media
Suggested readings:
Webster, J. G. (2017). Three myths of digital media. Convergence, 23(4), 352–361. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856517700385
Uricchio, William. ‘ The algorithmic turn: photosynth, augmented reality and the changing implications of the image’. Visual Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, March 2011, 25-35.
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Media Language: an introduction to semiotics
Suggested reading:
'Media Language and Representations" inequality and difference' in: Bennett et al. A Level Media Studies. Routledge, 2019.
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Fictions and Realities of Media
Suggested reading:
'Fictions and Realities: a television case study' in: Bennett et al. A Level Media Studies. Routledge, 2019, 52-78.
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Media Audiences - social and cultural contexts (or how young is too young for media gadgets?)
Suggested reading:
Selected chapter from
Katharina J. Rohlfing, Claudia Müller-Brauers (eds): International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy: The Impact of Digital Devices on Learning, Language Acquisition and Social Interaction. NY: Routledge, 2021.
Introduction: Kathryn C. Montgomery: Generation Digital. MIT Press, 2007.
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Media baklance and well-being (from contents to screen time)
Suggested reading:
selected chapter from
Jesper Tække and Michael Paulsen: A New Perspective on Education in the Digital Age. Teaching, Media and Bildung. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
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Privacy and Security
Suggested reading:
Introduction: Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online. Eds: Anna Poletti and Julie Rak. University of Wisconsin Press, 2014.
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Digital Footprint and Identity
Suggested Reading:
David L. Palatinus: “Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital” Acta Philologica. Vol. 56. 2020.
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Creating Media: Young Creators, Influencers, Role Models (the good, the bad and the ugly...)
Suggested reading:
selected chapters from:
Mary Beth Hertz: Digital and Media Literacy in the Age of the Internet: Practical Classroom Applications. London: Rowman&Littlefield, 2019.
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News, Media Literacy and Young People on Social Media
Suggested reading:
Selected chapter from:
Sue Ellen Christian: Everyday Media Literacy: An Analog Guide for Your Digital Life. NY: Routledge, 2020.
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Using (Digital) Media Technologies in Teaching and Learning
Suggested reading:
Selected chapter from:
Katharina J. Rohlfing, Claudia Müller-Brauers (eds): International Perspectives on Digital Media and Early Literacy: The Impact of Digital Devices on Learning, Language Acquisition and Social Interaction. NY: Routledge, 2021.
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Conclusion and Revision
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End-term test