A detailed program for the course, with classes description and literature will be available in August.

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1 Master: New Media (2. kursusperiode: ) Om kurset Fag Sted Undervisningssprog Kommunikation (kombination) Se kursusgange Engelsk Kursus starter Kursus slutter Evaluering Students must participate actively to the course and must hand in an individual essay on a selected subject at the end of the course. Grades are awarded on the 7-point scale for course participation plus essay. New Media: Theoretical and Critical Approaches to the Evolving History of New Media. Teacher: Francesco Lapenta. Introduction The indivisible history of technologies of text, sound and image is one of continuous evolutions and ever changing relations, communicative functions, and social, cultural, economic and political significations. A technology driven evolution that at each stage of its technological development has brought about enormous changes in human communications, social relations and world perception. A century after the first wave of analogue communication technologies, digital technologies, the digital convergence of text, sound and image, and the global connectivity of the Internet, have opened the way for the development of increasingly reach ways to produce, distribute and consume texts, images and sound. This initial digital convergence of forms, and global distribution of content, has been followed by a second stage, often referred to as Web 2.0, in which the focus has shifted from content distribution to content organization, or the organization of information based on evolving principles (for example; friendship, location, task, cost, users review), and software, designed to organize and associate these contents in meaningful ways for their users. Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google Earth, Google +, linkedin, Photosynth, are all but a few examples of these late evolutions in the organization of the production, storage, exchange and distribution of content that is organized by new media platforms that are now trying to visualize and codify our mediated lives, surroundings and interactions. These software are part of an algorithmic turn (Uricchio) in content production, visualization of information, social interaction and distribution of content of which social media, for example, are just one possible articulation. In this course we will analyse these contemporary evolution in technology and software, and contextualize them within the theoretical and critical discourses that question both their historical heritage (digital photography vs analogue photography) their social value (printed press vs Twitter) and cultural evolution (graphic art vs video games). These theoretical and critical aims will be accomplished in the course by grounding each class with the analysis of one specific technological evolution (for example: the mobile, the tablet PC, gaming platforms, location based technologies, social media) or software application (Facebook, Foursquare, Google +, Photosynth, Google Earth, Second life) to specifically address how these new forms of digital production, communication and exchange of digital information are changing or reshaping the perception, social function and evolution of new electronic media and new media representations. A detailed program for the course, with classes description and literature will be available in August. Literature for each class is described in the individual classes description below. All literature is available online. Expanded reading list: Albrechtslund, Anders (2008) Online social networking as participatory surveillance, FIRST-MONDAY, vol. 13 no. 3, March edition. Bolter, J. and Grusin, R Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Christopherson, C Beyond the self-expressive worker: An industry perspective on entertainment media. Theory, Culture and Society 25: Deuze, M Convergence in the Culture and Creative Industries. International Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (2): van Dijck, J Users Like You? Theorizing Agency in User-Generated Content. Media, Culture, and Society 31 (1): Figgis Mike, Digital Filmmaking. London: Faber & Faber. Gitelman, L Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hesmondhalgh, D Creative Labour as a Basis for a Critique of Creative Industries d New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press. Levinson, P The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. London and New York: Routledge. Manovich, L The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Storsul, T. and D. Stuedahl, eds The

2 Ambivalence Towards Convergence. G?eborg: Nordicom. Thorburn, D. and Jenkins, D Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. MIT Press. g Agency in User-Generated Content. Media, Culture, and Society 31 (1): Figgis Mike, Digital Filmmaking. London: Faber & Faber. Gitelman, L Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Hesmondhalgh, D Creative Labour as a Basis for a Critique of Creative Industries d New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press. Levinson, P The Soft Edge: A Natural History and Future of the Information Revolution. London and New York: Routledge. Manovich, L The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Storsul, T. and D. Stuedahl, eds The Ambivalence Towards Convergence. G?eborg: Nordicom. Thorburn, D. and Jenkins, D Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. MIT Press. kursusgange Course overview: new media in evolution Tidspunkt 18/ kl. 13:00-17:00 Introduction to the main subjects of the course. The indivisible relation of technology, sound and image is one of continuous evolutions and ever changing cultural significations. Photography, audio-technologies and text all brought about enormous changes in human communication and world perception. Audiovisuals have merged them all creating a unique fusion of forms, communicative contents and world views. A century later the Internet and digital media are once again reshuffling the cards of the communicative and creative palette and as it happened with previous technologies (such as photography, film, sound recording, telephone, radio, television) are once again renegotiating the relations among preexisting media and their meanings for the communities that use them. An unprecedented scale of distribution and circulation of images, videos and texts are nurturing the new media social evolution, and their convergence and mix drive the contemporary multimedia social turn. Not only the growth of audiovisual contents production and distribution has become a dominant aspect of this evolution. It can also be argued that the tradition of media fusion and juxtaposition characteristic of the audiovisual, is now becoming the key feature of the multimodality typical of all new communications and social relations. There is much to be explored in the emerging convergence of digital media and associated social practices. The aim of this class is to critically engage with the social meanings of digital convergence, and question the relevance of some established approaches to audio-visuality to explore the new multimodal nature of our mediated social relations. Critical approaches will include aesthetics, semiotics, media and communication theory, cinema studies, audio/visual culture, visual sociology, audio research, media history, studies of technology and media production. The questions: What is the future of separate media in the era of digital convergence? Business Innovation trough technology: The language of new media, communication with data. Tidspunkt 09/ kl. 13:00-17:00 Manovich s discussion of the heuristic potential of the contemporary transformation of information visualization (InfoVis) into what he calls direct visualization of information (Manovich 2011: 36) provides a starting point for considering how new forms of visualisation might be engaged in research. Although it is not easy to define what exactly InfoVis may be today, Manovich uses a provisional definition that defines modern InfoVis as a mapping between discrete data and a visual representation (Manovich 2011:37) that utilizes computer graphics and interaction to assist humans in solving problems (Purchase 2008:46-64 in Manovich 2011). At the core of information visualization, there is the assumption that the

3 representation of data, images, texts and sounds is acquiring an all new sense in new mediated communication. Lev Manovich 2001, The language of new media. chapters I and II pages 43 to 111 link here Online social networking, collective intelligence, open source and the lie of the land of free Tidspunkt 11/ kl. 09:00-11:00 Manovich s discussion of the heuristic potential of the contemporary transformation of information visualization (InfoVis) into what he calls direct visualization of information (Manovich 2011: 36) provides a starting point for considering how new forms of visualisation might be engaged in research. Although it is not easy to define what exactly InfoVis may be today, Manovich uses a provisional definition that defines modern InfoVis as a mapping between discrete data and a visual representation (Manovich 2011:37) that utilizes computer graphics and interaction to assist humans in solving problems (Purchase 2008:46-64 in Manovich 2011). At the core of information visualization, there is the assumption that the representation of data, images, texts and sounds is acquiring an all new sense in new mediated communication. Lev Manovich 2001, The language of new media. chapters I and II pages 43 to 111 link here Being digital. bodies in code, or the tale of the algorithmic evolution of identity and self Tidspunkt 16/ kl. 13:00-17:00 The evolution of mobile phones and portable devices such as tablets and laptops into integrated multimedia and data storage devices has further enhanced users s emotional attachment (Vincent 2006:117) to these devices that are perceived as personalized communications tools used to achieve continuous connectivity to personal and business networks while engendering a feeling of intimacy by being permanently connected with friends and family. A significant element of the personalization of mobile communications involved the transfer of established Web 2.0 and social networking applications to mobile technologies. For instance, accounts, Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts, on-line banking, Youtube profiles, Skype accounts, and Google s services accounts are but a few of the personalized applications that have moved from the limited mobility of localized computing to the ubiquitous and continuous connectivity of mobile computing. Thus potentially transforming the mobile into the epicenter of the individual s online existence. What happens when our identities becomes digital? William Uricchio, The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the State of the Image in Visual Studies 26 (2010) Augmented reality, Augmented self. Looking into the evolution of the internet of things Tidspunkt 23/ kl. 13:00-17:00

4 The evolution of the Internet of Things, or the Internet of Objects is still not part of lay conversations, it is however going to have a huge impact on how we see and interact with the world. The Internet of things can be defined as: "A global network infrastructure, linking physical and virtual objects through the exploitation of data capture and communication capabilities. This infrastructure includes existing and evolving Internet and network developments. It will offer specific object-identification, sensor and connection capability as the basis for the development of independent cooperative services and applications. These will be characterised by a high degree of autonomous data capture, event transfer, network connectivity and interoperability." ( Haller S. 2010) Tuters M, Varnelis k. (2006) Beyond Locative Media: Giving Shape to the Internet of Things Geomedia. Location Based Services and Applications Tidspunkt 25/ kl. 13:00-17:00 what is visualization: lev manovich manovich_visualization_2010.doc Lapenta: Geomedia: on location-based media, the changing status of collective image production and the emergence of social navigation systems SOPA and ACTA protection or surveillance Tidspunkt 26/ kl. 13:00-16:00 Sted Teorirum Albrechtslund, Anders (March 3, 2008). "Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance". From Big Brother to Electronic Panopticon, David Lyon Lyon.html students presentations Tidspunkt 31/ kl. 13:00-16:00 Students presentations. William Uricchio, The Algorithmic Turn: Photosynth, Augmented Reality and the State of the Image in Visual Studies 26 (2010) Cameron, Kim (2005): The Seven Laws of Identity. thelaws.html

5 STADS stamdata Afløsningsseminar Belastning : 7.5 ECTS Aktivitetskode : U24632 Prøveform : Afleveringsopgave Bedømmelse : 7-trinsskala Censur : Intern censur