schedule

soongsil university / the Global School of Media

2019 fall
media aesthetics

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Week 1

introduction of the class

09.03
09.04*

*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

09.10
09.11

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

Week 3

2. Twenty key new media concepts-1

09.17
09.18

  • collective intelligence
  • convergence
  • creative industries
  • cybersapce/virtual reality
  • digital copyright/creative commons
    - presentation: [09.17] [
    강도훈,김다은]

  • digital divide
  • digital economy/digital capitalism
  • globalization
  • hacking
  • interactivity
    - presentation: [09.18] [김범수,김시영]

Week 4

Guest Lecture 

09.24
09.25

  • 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 Wednesday, 15:00
  • 09.25 Wed: Dr. Jongcheon Shin on Bio Media as New Media

Week 5

2. Twenty key new media concepts-2

10.01
10.02

  • knowledge economy
  • mobile media
  • networks
  • participation
  • piracy
    - presentation: [10.01]  [
    김용우,김재선]
  •  
  • privacy and surveillance
  • remediation
  • ubiquitous computing
  • user-centered content/user-led innovation
  • web 2.0
    - presentation: [10.02] [
    김정민,김지원]

Week 6

3. Approaches to new media

10.08
10.09*

*no class

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

·        The global internet (p11) [10.08] [김채현,도예원]

·         

·        Pioneer Media Theorists (p41) [10.08] [Luisa Useche, Maria Cristina]

Week 7

4. Social Networking Media

10.15
10.16

  • network economics
  • social network
  • networked public sphere
  • pdf 4
  • Wikipedia (p64) [10.15] [Viktorija Baraneckaja,박강운]
  •  
  • Transmedia storytelling (p80) [10.16] [박동휘,박수민]

Week 8

Mid term

10.22*
10.23*

*no class

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

Week 9

5. Participatory media cultures

10.29
10.30 

  • convergent social media
  • Pro-ams
  • digital dialogue
  • pdf 5
  • Media studies 2.0 (p85) [10.29] [손주애,송준희]
  •  
  • The games industry and exploitation (p98) [10.30] [신한빈,신한현]

Week 10

6. Games: Technology, industry, culture

11.05
11.06

  • history
  • industry
  • culture
  • pdf 6
  • Video games and violence (p102) [11.05] [Wang Tao En,이강우]
  •  
  • Wikileaks (p117) [11.06] [이상훈,이재연]

Week 11

7. Online News and the Future of Journalism

11.12
11.13

  • transforming journalism
  • new form
  • pdf 7
  • The innovator’s dilemma [11.12] [(이지윤),이현지]
  •  
  • Massive open online courses (p.169) [11.13] [장신영,전서현]

Week 12

8. Creative industries

11.19
11.20

  • socio-economic drivers
  • policy drivers
  • pdf 8
  • Creative commons (p.195) [11.19] [전세연,정효경]
  •  
  • The Barack Obama presidential campaigns (p.205) [11.20] [조진,주원철]

Week 13

9. The global knowledge economy

11.26
11.27

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

·        The Arab Spring (p.212) [11.26] [진주은,Yaroslava Padenok]

·         

·        Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin’s “Remediation, Hypermediacy, Immediacy” [11.27] [Paul Cridlig, Elliot Frelin]

Week 14

10. Transforming Higher Education

11. Internet law, policy and governance

12.03
12.04

  • 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” [12.03] [Laura Fischer,허지은]
  •  
  • Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” [12.04] [홍민지,Rebecca White]

Week 15

Final Term

12.10*
12.11*

*no class

*

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

 

Submit your presentation pdfs. Due: 12.11. Wednesday, 15:00

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