New Media Technologies in Educational, Cultural and Social Practice

Basic literature:

1. Bolter, J. D. (2004) Theory and Practice of New Media Studies, in: Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison and Terje Rasmussen (Eds.) Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovations in Digital Domains. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 15-34.

2. Castells, M. (1996) The Rise of the Network Society. Cambridge, MA; Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

3. Croteau, D. , Hoynes, W., Milan, S. (2011) Media Society. Industries, Images and Audiences. Fourth Edition. London: Sage.

4. Keen, A. (2007) The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s internet is killing our culture. New York: Doubleday.

5. Lessig, L. (2004) Free Culture, London: Penguin Press

6. Lessig, L. (2008) Remix. Making art commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, London: Bloomsbury.

7. Manovich, L. (2002) Language of New Media, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

8. Waltz, M. (2005) Alternative and activist media. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Additional literature:

1. DeKerckhove, D.(2005) Hybrid: elements of a re-mix culture, in: Hybrid, living in paradox, Hatje Cantz, Austria, 2005, pp. 14-17.

2. Friesen N. (2010) Education and the social Web: Connective learning and the commercial imperative, First Monday, Volume 15, Number 12 - 6 December 2010, http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3149/2718

3. Han, S. (2010) Theorizing New Media: Reflexivity, Knowledge, and the Web 2.0. Sociological Inquiry, Volume 80, Issue 2, May 2010, pp. 200–213.

4. Hand, M. and B. Sandywell. 2002. E-topia as cosmopolis or citadel: On the democratizing and de-democratizing logics of the internet, or, toward a critique of the new technological fetishism. Theory, Culture & Society 19, no. 1-2: 197-225.

5. Kahle, D., (2008), Designing Open Educational Technology in: Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (eds.) Opening Up Education. The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, Edited by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 27-46

6. Katz, J. E., and M. Aakhus, eds. (2002) Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

7. Konieczny, P. (2012) Wikis and Wikipedia as a teaching tool: Five years later. First Monday, Volume 17, Number 9 - 3 September 2012, http://www.firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3583/3313

8. Lessig, L. (2007) Laws that choke creativity, TED Talks, Online lecture, http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html

9. Lessig, L. (2010) Re-examining the remix, TED Talks, Online lecture, http://www.ted.com/talks/lessig_nyed.html

10. Manovich, L. (2012), Media after software, http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/Manovich.Media_after_software.2012.pdf

11. Wiley, D. (2008), 2005–2012: The Open Course Wars, in: Toru Iiyoshi and M. S. Vijay Kumar (eds.) Opening Up Education. The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, Edited by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 247-260

Forms and conditions of credit:

Credits: discussion during lectures, online essay, forum discussion, creating graphic and multimedia artifact, group project (preparing content for social media and e-learning course), individual project (scenario for using content in digital media), written test

Conditions of credit:

- students are present at the lectures, workshop and online (e-learning platform);

- students actively participate in the workshop and online works;

- students prepare group presentation (analyses of different new media phenomena);

- students write an essay about different new media practices in the context of intercultural experience.

- students prepare group project as a multimedia content ready to place in different new media (digital storytelling in social media, e-learning course on e-learning platform) and individual scenario of creating and managing content for new media (educational, promotional, artistic, etc.)

- short test concerning the content of lectures

Each student attendance and activity is graded with points.