Магистратура
2026/2027
Культура, медиа и исследование
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Современные медиаисследования и аналитика/ Contemporary Media Research)
Кто читает:
Институт медиа
Где читается:
Факультет креативных индустрий
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 2-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
9
Контактные часы:
76
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course Culture, Media and Research trains students to work with cultural-studies and ethnographic perspectives for studying contemporary media and digital cultures. Across three modules it moves from the analysis of media and data cultures (transgression, curation, protest, attention, cuteness), through a module on materiality, machine vision, monsters and immortality, to a module on reception and audience studies, from encoding/decoding to the datafication of audiences. Students are expected to develop their own written or visual research projects and to participate actively by bringing their own examples and case studies.
Learning Objectives
- To offer students a comprehensive toolkit of concepts and perspectives around contemporary platform cultures
- To train students in critical analytical thinking about contemporary media cultures
- To train students to be theoretically minded and to lead their independent research projects
- To train students to think about the interrelationships between cultural practice and media contexts
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Analyzes cultural practice in tandem with the overlapping political, technological and economic contexts in which it occurs.
- Conducts research on practices, users, publics and audiences
- Develops critical, reflexive and analytical thinking with respect to contemporary media and cultural politics.
- Examines online campaigns critically.
- Discusses contemporary media phenomena in a theoretically informed way.
- Collaborates and thinks collectively with peers
Course Contents
- Media Cultures (Panos Kompatsiaris)
- Posthumanism and its Discontents (Panos Kompatsiaris)
- Reception and Audience Studies (Ioanna Ferra)
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 2nd module0.4 * Final task: presentation or essay + 0.3 * Seminar tasks / homework + 0.15 * Attendance + 0.15 * Participation
- 2026/2027 3rd module0.15 * Attendance + 0.3 * Seminar tasks / homework + 0.15 * Participation + 0.4 * Final task: presentation or essay
- 2026/2027 4th module0.4 * Final task: presentation or essay + 0.15 * Attendance + 0.3 * Seminar tasks / homework + 0.15 * Participation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Cultural theory and popular culture : an introduction, Storey, J., 2018
- Digital ethnography : anthropology, narrative, and new media, Underberg, N. M., 2014
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Subcultures. Vol.1: Subcultural histories, , 2007
- Subcultures. Vol.2: Chicago, Birmingham, scenes and communities, , 2007
- Subcultures. Vol.3: Subcultures and music, , 2007
- Subcultures. Vol.4: Sexed subjects, virtual communities, neo-tribes, , 2007
- Vibrant matter : a political ecology of things, Bennett, J., 2010