MK-2-147 (0) - Media History

• 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

• 1 (2018-08-01 to 2018-10-21)
• 2 (2018-10-22 to 2018-12-31)

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

Grönvall John

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

No limit (44 students enrolled)

12 months after course has ended

Kursen inleds med en filmvisning ("The Truman Show") i stora
auditoriet 31.08.2018 kl 11:30.
Därefter följer den första lektionen som är i DIAK 100m mot centrum
från Arcada. Samma fredag 31.8 kl 14:00 - 16:30.
Vi träffas i Aulan i DIAK. Lektionen är i rum 222 i DIAK.

2018-08-13 to 2018-09-09

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