schedule

soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2017 fall
media aesthetics

 

Week 1

introduction of the class

09.05
09.06(*no class)

texts

  • Terry Flew, New Media, 4th edition (Victoria, Australia: Oxford UP, 2014)

what to do today

  • get the text reserved in the library

Week 2

1. Introduction to New Media

09.12
09.13

  • digital transformations
  • digital convergence
  • history and culture
  • Web 2.0 and social media
  • pdf 1

Week 3

2. Twenty key new media concepts-1

09.19
09.20

  • collective intelligence
  • convergence
  • creative industries
  • cybersapce/virtual reality
  • digital copyright/creative commons
    - presentation: [
    강지원]
  • digital divide
  • digital economy/digital capitalism
  • globalization
  • hacking
  • interactivity
    - presentation: [고영진]

Week 4

2. Twenty key new media concepts-2

09.26
09.27

  • knowledge economy
  • mobile media
  • networks
  • participation
  • piracy
    - presentation: [
    신동일]
  • privacy and surveillance
  • remediation
  • ubiquitous computing
  • user-centered content/user-led innovation
  • web 2.0
    - presentation: [
    Hoang Dieu Linh]

Week 5

Holiday

10.03*
10.04*

*no class

  • enjoy full moon festival!
  • Project: Choose and using 1 of 20 concepts,
    - topic: Problems in New Media
    - 2 pages in Korean or English
    - your own voice should be included
  • Due: 10.24 Tuesday, 15:00

Week 6

3. Approaches to new media

10.10
10.11

  • beyond hype
  • social shaping
  • information society
  • political economy
  • network society
  • techno-economic paradigms
  • actor-network theory
  • pdf 3

·        The global internet (p11) [10.10] [김동현]

·        Pioneer Media Theorists (p41) [10.11] [김수연]

Week 7

4. Social Networking Media

10.17
10.18

Week 8

Mid term

10.24*
10.25*

*no class in the week

  • project due
  • id numer-name.pdf (xxxxxxxx-홍길동.pdf) to jsy@ssu.ac.kr
  • 10.24 Tuesday, 15:00

Week 9

5. Participatory media cultures

10.31
11.01 

Week 10

6. Games: Technology, industry, culture

11.07
11.08

Week 11

7. Online News and the Future of Journalism

11.14
11.15

Week 12

8. Creative industries

11.21
11.22

Week 13

9. The global knowledge economy

11.28
11.29

  • globalization
  • knowledge economy
  • nature of innovation
  • pdf 9

·        The Arab Spring (p.212) [11.28] [임동민] [임이준]

·        Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s “Remediation, Hypermediacy, Immediacy” [11.29] [장윤지]  [전수완]

Week 14

10. Transforming Higher Education

11. Internet law, policy and governance

12.05
12.06

  • death of university?
  • higher education
  • internet governance
  • media policy
  • copyright and intellectual property law
  • pdf 10
  • pdf 11
  • Sherry Turkle’s “Life on the Screen” [12.05] [정다해]  [정원연]
  • Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” [12.06] [조예본] [최보라]

Week 15

12. Online Activism and Networked Politics

12.12
12.13

  • democratic medium
  • active citizenship
  • pdf 12
  • N. Katherine Hayles’s “Posthuman” [12.12] [최재은] [한희수]
  • Jean Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation)” [12.13] [허상호]

Week 16

Final Term

12.19*
12.20*

*no class in the week