Postgraduate Course: Media and Culture (Online Distance Learning) (ARCH11080)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is an introduction to the issues that surround the emergence of digital design today. Online lectures and discussions cover topics that enable students to discuss the impact of digital technology from its immediate practical application to the long term redefinition of the design professions. The development of a broad social and psychological understanding of the nature and role of information, metaphor and interaction will also form an important component of the course. Key texts by thinkers who have contributed new ideas and generated fresh debate about living and working in the digital age will be studied, which will provide the basis for focused discussions about how digital design is developing or could develop. Sessions will therefore be devoted to the major concepts and theoretical approaches which have a bearing on the practice of digital design, canvassing issues such as technological determinism, utopianism, technoromanticism, concepts of language, typology, space and the body informed by digital technology. The course will also incorporate lectures on the practical social, legal and cultural ramifications of digital media: usability, intellectual property and the popular media. |
| Course description |
Classes will be delivered in conjunction with a cohort of students resident in Edinburgh. Lecture content will be delivered via online media. Seminars and tutorials will be delivered via live video links to classes as available, and via recordings of class meetings. Students will also have access to selected meetings amongst the distance cohort, and at times to be agreed.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
| Course Start Date |
18/09/2017 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 11,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Revision Session Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
171 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
300-500 word abstract of a proposed video interview topic and interview questions to be submitted mid semester for feedback (20%); a recorded interview (45%); 3000 word case study and write up of the interview submitted at the end of semester (25%). There will also be a weekly online quiz on the course content (10%). |
| Feedback |
The abstract will be used a basis for the provision of mid-semester individual and group feedback. This will occur during one of the weekly 2 hour class sessions and should be taken into account during the final development of the recorded interview and write-up. As lecture content is delivered via video viewed before the class, formative feedback also will occur during class time throughout the semester. Note that class time here includes scheduled contact time for online students. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Contribute to critical theoretical and philosophical debates about digital media technologies, systems and devices
- Use digital social media in its various forms to present and respond to discussion and debate about digital media
- Write to a suitable standard, deploying the conventions of academic scholarship, including the appropriate use of evidence, sources and references
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Reading List
Coyne , Richard. 2017. Network Nature: The Place of Nature in the Digital Age. London: Bloomsbury
Coyne, Richard, John Lee, and Denitsa Petrova. 2017. Re-visiting the flipped classroom in a design context. Journal of Learning Design, (10) 2, 1-13.
Coyne, Richard. 2010. The Tuning of Place: Sociable Spaces and Pervasive Digital Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Coyne, Richard. 2016. Mood and Mobility: Navigating the Emotional Spaces of Digital Social Networks. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Dourish, Paul, and Genevieve Bell. 2011. Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Morozov, Evgeny. 2011. The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World. London: Allen Lane
Turkle, Sherry. 2011. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each other. New York: Basic Books |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Curiosity to learn in an ever changing digital world. Courage to expand and fulfil your potential as a participant in the world of global digital media. Passion to engage with local and global concerns, including the political role of information technology. |
| Special Arrangements |
This course will be taught entirely by distance learning. Lectures will be available online (as streamed audio or video, possibly live, but also recorded). Handbooks, notes and other materials originated by the teaching team will be available online. Online discussions using various technologies will be facilitated. Assessment will be via written submissions, submitted electronically. |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
This course will be taught entirely by distance learning. Lectures will be available online (as streamed audio or video, possibly live, but also recorded). There will be no set hours for required attendance at class sessions. |
| Keywords | social media,design,digital media,technology,philosophy,critical theory |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Richard Coyne
Tel: (0131 6)50 2332
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Course secretary | Mr Mathieu Donner
Tel: (0131 6)51 5740
Email: |
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