MK-2-147

• Media culture 2016 - Introduction to media culture
• Media culture 2017 - Introduction to media culture
• Media culture 2017 (media analysis) - Introduction to media culture
• Media culture 2018 (media analysis) - Introduction to media culture
• Media culture 2018 - Introduction to media culture
• Cultural management 2019 - Culture and communication
• Film and media 2019 - Introduction to media culture

• 1 (2019-08-01 to 2019-10-27)
• 2 (2019-10-28 to 2019-12-31)

Swedish

Compulsory

First

1

5 cr

The aims of the course are:
Knowledge and understanding
After completing the course, students
should:

• be able to account for central
  perspectives in media history,
• be able to account for the Western
  media historical development
• be able to to reflect on how the
  media
  shaped by the history and the importance
  of these media had
  for man

Skills and Abilities
After completing the course, students
should:

• be able to produce an independent
  essay on the subject matter
• be able to verbally discuss and
  problematize media history
  literature with others

Evaluation ability and approach
After completing the course, students
should:

• be able to apply a critical approach
  to their environment,- relate the
  media historical knowledge to
  socially relevant and universal social
  problem areas.

At the end of the course the student is
expected to be able to
understand how media and communication
has helped to shape
our communities through the period of
late modernity.

The course gives a first overview of
Media and Communication as
fields of study and presents selected
concepts, theories, traditions
and
central sources in the literature. It
follows the development of the
social,
technological, economic and political
events through history.
Some basic media theoretical concepts
are introduced to each
lesson for after qualifying courses
allow the student to
creating a critical perspective on media
and communication
world works today.
Special focus is on the mass media, film
history, the Internet
development and social media
functionality and interaction
society.

The subject is vast and the course aims
to a
basic plan to create an understanding of
the role of media in the
modern
communities. In addition, treated the
social impact of new
forms of communication and information
dissemination is, from
invention of the printing press to the
global
communication networks and mobile
applications of social
media we have today. Woven into the
course are a solid
background literature that serves as the
gateway for those who want
to learn
more about the subject. The course is
therefore a natural introduction
to the
academic thinking and writing. In
addition, every two weeks
of course, be a film screening as
parallel connects theories
with important contemporary works in
film history.

To the content should not be a list of
dates and events intertwine
the historical development of media in a
discussion about how
development of media affects the man as
an individual and
members of society. The sociological
reasoning describes
Thus, the impact and relevance of the
media history
development that has resulted in the
mediatised society
we have today.

The examination consists of an essay in
which students discuss two
of
the traditions that are represented in
the course, their relevance; the
ways in which they have developed; how
they have been applied, and
how they can
evaluated in terms of the contemporary
media environment
(technically,
organizational, textually,
analytically). The essay is written
individually in scope 10-15 pages and
will discuss rather
but to summarize the main points of the
arguments.

Disposition weekly
The course runs over two periods. Every
other week, it
lecture based and every week we see a
movie
relates to the theory. Each theory
lesson based on short extracts (10-
20
s) from the classic media texts which
the student has two weeks
to read. The goal is that we can have a
good discussion on the
subject in
lesson.

None

The course uses a "Flipped Classroom"
didactic.

Baudrillard J (1995) Simulacra and
Simulation. University of Michigan
Press.
Benjamin W (2010) The Work of Art in the
Age of Mechanical
Reproduction. CreateSpace.
Bourdieu P (1999) On Television. New
York: New Press, The.
Briggs A and Burke P (2010) A Social
History of the Media: From
Gutenberg to the Internet. 3 edition.
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA:
Polity.
Bronner SE (2011) Critical Theory: A
Very Short Introduction. 1st
edition. New York, N.Y: Oxford
University Press.
Clooney G (2005) Good Night, and Good
Luck. Biography, Drama,
History.
Curran J, Fenton N and Freedman D (2016)
Misunderstanding the
Internet. 2 edition. Abingdon, Oxon ; New
York, NY: Routledge.
Fiennes S (2013) The Pervert?s Guide to
Ideology. Documentary.
Fiske J (2010) The John Fiske
Collection: Introduction to
Communication Studies. 3 edition.
London ; New York: Routledge.
Fuchs C (2013) Social Media: A Critical
Introduction. Los Angeles:
SAGE Publications Ltd.
Gripsrud J (2011) Mediekultur och
mediesamhälle. 3 edition.
Göteborg: Bokförlaget Daidalos.
Hjarvard S (2008) The Mediatization of
Society. Nordicom Review
29(2): 105?134.
Joost H and Schulman A (2010) Catfish.
Documentary.
Juhani W (2014) Den finska televisionens
milstolpar : program och
programproduktion under fem årtionden.
Göteborg : Helsingfors:
Nordicom.
McLuhan M and Gordon WT (2003)
Understanding Media: The
Extensions of Man : Critical Edition.
Critical edition. Corte Madera,
CA: Gingko Press.
Nord L, Strömbäck J, Allern S, et al.
(2012) Medierna och demokratin.
2 edition. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Peim N (2007) Walter Benjamin in the Age
of Digital Reproduction:
Aura in Education: A Rereading of ?The
Work of Art in the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction?. Journal of
Philosophy of Education 41(3):
363?380.
Roberts JM (2014) New Media and Public
Activism: Neoliberalism,
the
State and Radical Protest in the Public
Sphere. Policy Press.
Stocchetti M and Kukkonen K (2010)
Critical Media Analysis: An
Introduction for Media Professionals.
Peter Lang Pub Incorporated.
Thompson JB (2002) Medierna och
moderniteten. Göteborg:
Bokförlaget Daidalos.
Tyldum M (2014) The Imitation Game.
Biography, Drama, Thriller.
Wachowski Lana and Wachowski Lilly
(1999) The Matrix. Action, Sci-
Fi.
Welles O (1941) Citizen Kane. Drama,
Mystery.

• Lectures - 30 hours
• Practical exercises - 15 hours
• Project- and production work/artistic activities - 40 hours
• Individual studies - 30 hours
• - 20 hours

• Total workload of the course: 135 hours
• Of which autonomous studies: 135 hours
• Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours

Participation in tuition

• Essays, reports, productions and portfolio
• Learning diary and group assignments.

To pass the course, the student must
participate in class,
pass the 10 part examinations and pass
the learning diary
requirements.

• Grönvall John
• Lindfors Kauko
• Löv Monica

Grönvall John

https://arcada.itslearning.com/ External link

No limit (57 students enrolled)

12 months after course has ended

Kursen inleds med en filmvisning ("The
Truman Show") i lilla
auditoriet F249 den 29.08.2019 kl
10:30-12:30
Därefter följer den första lektionen som
är i DIAK 100m mot centrum
från Arcada. Måndagen 2.9 kl 8:30 -
12:00.
Vi träffas i Aulan i DIAK. Lektionen är
i rum 322 i DIAK.

2019-08-12 to 2019-09-08

• Date will be announced later - Reports and productions
• Date will be announced later - Other assignments