schedule

soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2018 fall
media aesthetics

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Week 1

introduction of the class

09.04
09.05*

*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

09.11
09.12

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

Week 3

2. Twenty key new media concepts-1

09.18
09.19

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

Week 4

Holiday

09.25*
09.26*

*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: 10.23 Tuesday, 15:00

Week 5

2. Twenty key new media concepts-2

10.02
10.03*

*no class

  • knowledge economy
  • mobile media
  • networks
  • participation
  • piracy
    - presentation: [
    김소현] [김영서]
  •  
  • privacy and surveillance
  • remediation
  • ubiquitous computing
  • user-centered content/user-led innovation
  • web 2.0
    - presentation: [
    김영진] [김윤식]

Week 6

3. Approaches to new media

10.09*
10.10

*no class

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

·        The global internet (p11) [10.10] [Lidia] [Rianna]

·         

·        Pioneer Media Theorists (p41) [10.10] [Diem] [Taylor]

Week 7

4. Social Networking Media

10.16
10.17

  • network economics
  • social network
  • networked public sphere
  • pdf 4
  • Wikipedia (p64) [10.16] [박성주] [Laura]
  •  
  • Transmedia storytelling (p80) [10.17] [민승원] [박소윤]

Week 8

Mid term

10.23*
10.24*

*no class

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

Week 9

5. Participatory media cultures

10.30
10.31 

  • convergent social media
  • Pro-ams
  • digital dialogue
  • pdf 5
  • Media studies 2.0 (p85) [10.30] [박인화] [박진희]
  •  
  • The games industry and exploitation (p98) [10.31] [박현선-80] [박현선-53]

Week 10

6. Games: Technology, industry, culture

11.06
11.07

  • history
  • industry
  • culture
  • pdf 6
  • Video games and violence (p102) [11.06] [서동윤] [신동영]
  •  
  • Wikileaks (p117) [11.07] [신예람] [신혜원]

Week 11

7. Online News and the Future of Journalism

11.13
11.14

  • transforming journalism
  • new form
  • pdf 7
  • The innovator’s dilemma [11.13] [양명선] [하주은]
  •  
  • Massive open online courses (p.169) [11.14] [Soeren] [Taing]

Week 12

8. Creative industries

11.20
11.21

  • socio-economic drivers
  • policy drivers
  • pdf 8
  • Creative commons (p.195) [11.20] [이광언] [이동원]
  •  
  • The Barack Obama presidential campaigns (p.205) [11.21] [이연주] [현민영]

Week 13

9. The global knowledge economy

11.27
11.28

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

·        The Arab Spring (p.212) [11.27] [이유정] [이유진]

·         

·        Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s “Remediation, Hypermediacy, Immediacy” [11.28] [이인] [고경서]

Week 14

10. Transforming Higher Education

11. Internet law, policy and governance

12.04
12.05

  • 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” [12.04] [전희원] [정수빈]
  •  
  • Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” [12.05] [정지혜] [정혜진]

Week 15

12. Online Activism and Networked Politics

12.11
12.12

  • democratic medium
  • active citizenship
  • pdf 12
  • N. Katherine Hayles’s “Posthuman” [12.11] [정효원] [주연정]
  •  
  • Jean Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation (Simulacres et Simulation)” [12.12] [지현민] [최혜현]

Week 16

Final Term

12.18*
12.19*

*no class in the week

*Alice, Thais, Ariadna, 김다혜, 서혜준, 신지원, 이현지   [전서현]

: Choose one of them, and submit your own PDF.

 

Submit your presentation pdfs. Due: 12.19. Wednesday, 15:00

ma-id-name-id-name.pdf (ma-xxxxxxxx-홍길순-xxxxxxxx-홍길동.pdf) to jsy@ssu.ac.kr