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Mobile Cultures (ARTS2091) in T2
Subject Area: Media, Culture and Technology
Media are increasingly portable, mobile, networked and ubiquitous. But what are the conditions that have given rise to these new media technologies and practices, and how might we respond to new mobile networks and forms of participation that mobile media allow? From mass media to mass migration, mobility is one of the key concepts of modern life. This course investigates mobile media in the context of the pervasiveness of mobility in modern life and the way in technology enables and controls all kinds of mobile cultures.
This subject will survey the history of mobile and portable media from transistor radios through to iPhones within a larger context of mobile cultures in which we move from, village to city, home life to car culture, from airport to internet. Students will be able to investigate the current state of play in the mobile media landscape and contextualise their understanding in a broad cultural, historical and theoretical context.
Social Media (ARTS2091) in T3
Subject Area: Media, Culture and Technology
This course draws on contemporary theoretical and empirical work from the fields of media and social semiotics to explore new media practices across social media platforms. A central focus is understanding the new forms of sociality that are emerging in relation to these new technologies. We will investigate how identities are performed and communities are formed through close analysis of the communicative patterns observable in both small and large sets of social media texts. Of particular interest is how opinion and sentiment are construed in these texts. Students will reflect on their own social media practices as well as engaging with a range of case studies.
