TV-3-029

• Media culture 2014 - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Media culture 2017 (media analysis) - Media critics
• Media culture 2018 (media analysis) - Media critics
• Film and tv 2010 (directing) - Critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2011 (sound and music) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2011 (cinematography and editing) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2011 (producing films) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2011 (scriptwriting) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2011 (online media) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2011 (directing) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2012 (producing films) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2012 (scriptwriting and directing) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2012 (cinematography and editing) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2012 (online media) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2012 (sound and music) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2013 (producing films) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2013 (scriptwriting and directing) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2013 (cinematography and editing) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2013 (sound and music) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory
• Film and tv 2013 (online media) - Extension studies: critical media laboratory

• 3 (2023-01-01 to 2023-03-19)
• 4 (2023-03-20 to 2023-07-31)

English

Optional

First

10 cr

C. CRITICAL AND ANALYTICAL MEDIA INDUSTRY KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge of:
- conventions regulating the main form of expression
- the main concepts and other intellectual tools to the critical analysis of media texts;
- the main critical approaches to media studies to problem relating to the production, distribution and consumption of media texts

Skills:
- Analytical skills associated with critical epistemic competences (understanding, interpretation, formulation and communication of opinions, etc.).
- Communicative skills: the formulation of knowledge-based opinions about media and media texts (e.g. film criticism).
- Critical media literacy skills, related to the understanding, and critical usage of media texts. ? Interpretative skills applied to the role of particular texts in the social construction of reality.
- Evaluative ethical skills to the evaluation of the social impact of both overt and or latent content of multimodal texts.

Approach:
- predisposition to democratic communication and critical investigation.
- inclination to relate media work, production, distribution and consumption to issue of social justice and equality.
- Normative interest and commitment to the possibility of emancipative social change and a more equitable political economy of the media

The title of the project run at CML for this year is "Utopia as Method: The imaginary reconstitution of society in the digital age". In this project students will engage with the problem of social change to produce a narrative visualization of relevant social problems and their ideal solutions.

The course Critical Media Laboratory is a follow up of Critical Media Analysis and the competences acquired in the latter are necessary for effective participation to the former.
The course is in English and a good control of this language is also required.

None

More information about the course can be obtained by Matteo Stochetti.

• Lectures - 35 hours
• Project- and production work/artistic activities - 100 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

To pass the course the student will have to
a) attend the lectures
b) actively participate to tutorials
c) produce an original media text about topic of choice accompanied by a written argumentation about the relevance of the topic, the nature of the conventions associated to it and the way in which the original media text challenges these conventions.

The original media text and its argumentation will account for 50% of the final grade. The quantity and quality of attendance for the remaining 50%

Stocchetti Matteo

Stocchetti Matteo

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

No limit (2 students enrolled)

12 months after course has ended

Please see Room Reservations in ARBS

2022-08-08 to 2023-04-20

Date will be announced later - Reports and productions