180.111 (20W) Media Archaeology

Wintersemester 2020/21

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07.01.2021 09:00 - 16:00 Online Meeting Off Campus
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Lehrende/r
LV-Titel englisch Media Archaeology
LV-Art Proseminar (prüfungsimmanente LV )
LV-Modell Onlinelehrveranstaltung
Semesterstunde/n 2.0
ECTS-Anrechnungspunkte 4.0
Anmeldungen 9 (30 max.)
Organisationseinheit
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
LV-Beginn 07.01.2021
eLearning zum Moodle-Kurs

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Intendierte Lernergebnisse

The course is designed to provide an introduction to the most recent streams in the academic field of Media and Communication Studies. The following learning outcomes are to fulfil this purpose:

•          Students will become familiar with the established the traditionally established terminology and approaches of Media and Communication Studies (i.e. Frankfurt and Birmingham schools)

•          Students master critical readings of key texts in the field of media archeology, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy.

•          Students will learn how to situate these approaches within the disciplinary and historical context of social sciences and humanities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

•          Students will examine interdisciplinary critical perspectives and learn how to articulate the diverse and sometimes contested meanings of materiality of cultural objects and processes.

•          Students will explore strategies of linking knowledge of materiality of mediated processes to the study of everyday life practices, while acquiring basic understanding of research methods in the field.

Lehrmethodik inkl. Einsatz von eLearning-Tools

The course will be delivered in a format combining lectures, seminars, independent learning and students’ presentations followed by peer feedback and formative continual assessment in the class.

Inhalt/e

Media and cultural studies of the twentieth century had been preoccupied with modes of representation, shifting from the question of what do media texts do to human subjects and the organization of the social (Frankfurt) to the question of what do people/audiences and social institutions do with mediated meanings (Birmingham). Following a brief summary of these debates we shall follow the most recent streams in media theory, i.e. new materialism (Barad), media archeology (Parikka; Bennett), object-oriented philosophy and machine-oriented ontology. What these frameworks demonstrate is real urgency to bring technical, social and ecological processes back into consideration with the contention that non-human entities are not only active components of contemporary culture, but should be investigated on a more equal footing to human subjectivity. All forms of life in the 21st century embody complex entanglements of both human and nonhuman actors (Latour). Thus the concept of ‘us’ as subject and media as ‘object’ is no longer suitable for analyzing current mediated experience. Moreover, seemingly virtual communication is grounded in very specific material and technological processes that might operate beyond direct human control and perception. Drawing on a specific case study (Eisenstein: materiality of print and paper as agents of change) we shall discuss the critical potentials of neo-materialistic approaches in the archeology of communication.

Literatur

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Prüfungsinformationen

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Prüfungsmethode/n

Participation in class discussion will constitute 30% of your final grade.

Group presentation (15 – 20 min) which will address a selected topic of the course content will constitute further 30% of the final grade. Format and content of the presentation will be discussed during the first meeting of the course.

Final essay of 10 pages (doubled-spaced, typed, 12-point font) on a selected topic is worth 40% of your grade. The list of topics, and formal characteristics of the essay will be discussed during the first meeting of the course. The essay must be submitted by email to jirina.smejkalova@gmail.com.

There will be no midterm or final exam.

References to reading materials and all relevant audio-visual materials will be provided during the course.

Beurteilungsschema

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Position im Curriculum

  • Bachelorstudium Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften (SKZ: 641, Version: 16W.3)
    • Fach: Medien- und Kulturtheorie (Wahlfach)
      • Aspekte der Medienkultur ( 0.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 180.111 Media Archaeology (2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
          Absolvierung im 5. Semester empfohlen
  • Bachelorstudium Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften (SKZ: 641, Version: 09W.1)
    • Fach: Medienpädagogik und Cultural Studies (Pflichtfach)
      • Proseminar ( 2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 180.111 Media Archaeology (2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
  • Bachelorstudium Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften (SKZ: 641, Version: 09W.1)
    • Fach: Medien und Gesellschaft (Wahlfach)
      • Proseminar ( 2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)
        • 180.111 Media Archaeology (2.0h PS / 4.0 ECTS)

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