UO Digital Mediascapes
Undergraduate
COMM 3071
Undergraduate
100% online
163362
4.5
Yes
10 weeks
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This course has not been
timetabled for 2018.
Course aim
To examine the historical development of digital technologies and the impact of the digital on traditional media formats, popular culture, identity and the social.
Course content
This course expands student understanding of digital media by considering how the digital intersects with issues of space, locality, personal, cultural and public life. Mapping the historic development of digital media, students will examine how the digital has transformed traditional screen media formats and popular culture by giving rise to new forms of space, time, technology, aesthetics and story-telling. Drawing on interdisciplinary studies of the digital, students will examine how the digital mediates everyday life and the role of digital in negotiating contemporary issues in the social sphere.
Textbooks
Nil
Prerequisites
Nil
Corequisite(s)
Nil
Teaching Method
Component | Duration | ||
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EXTERNAL, ONLINE ACTIVITY | |||
Online | 10 weeks x N/A |
Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.
Assessment
Continuous assessment, Essay
Fees
EFTSL*: 0.125
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation