Fig.: From left to right: Foucault, Adorno, McLuhan, McRobbie, Latour
Media
and Cultural Theory
Lecture with texts, video and sound examples
Monday,
1:30 p.m.
Room:
HT 214
Lecturer: Mathias Fuchs, additional teaching by Tapio Mäkelä
(Finland) , Juan Hiriart (Chile), David Hancock (UK)
The
module will
- introduce into key texts of the sociology and philosophy of new media;
- enable students to investigate, categorize and value types of new media;
- allow students to critically analyse new media and computer games in a cultural
context;
- encourage students to develop innovative ideas for future new media;
- provide the students with an opportunity to undertake an extended piece of
research in direct relation to their area of interest in the field;
- enable students to avoid cliché and stereotypes or use them consciously
and creatively;
- enable students to develop an individual viewpoint, a politically conscious
concept and intellectual and artistic skills to implement questions in regard
to gender, ethnicity, age, and other socially relevant issues, and judge the
ethical implications of their own work in terms of gender-related, ethnic, and
political aspects...
Fig.: From left to right: Foucault, Adorno, McLuhan, McRobbie, Latour
The students will write an essay on a chosen medium in the light of Cultural Theory and will work on aspects of a project that will be presented at Transmediale festival in Berlin in 2011. The contribution to this project will be assessed in regard to its creativity, background research, and cooperative practice in the development of the project.