FMCS3100
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
All aspects of contemporary culture are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. This course examines how digital communication affects everyday life, culture, institutions, communities and identity. The course introduces various scholarly frameworks, theories and perspectives on social media and digital culture. In this course you are encouraged to analyse the complexities of social media and digital culture and their social and cultural function. You will examine social media, video-on-demand platforms and mobile apps; discuss critical issues such as ethics, politics and histories; and use case studies to connect theory and practice.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 2 - 2022.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Identify the relationship between digital technologies and contemporary culture.
2. Examine key issues and debates emerging in contemporary digital culture research.
3. Articulate an argument about current digital cultures.
4. Use scholarly literature to analyse social media and/or digital culture case studies.
Content
The course will focus on the use of digital and networked technologies in contemporary culture. Topics may include:
- Sharing economies and network culture.
- Social media identities and avatars.
- Digital intimacy and social media.
- Social media and participatory culture.
- Hashtag activism.
- Interactive, virtual, social, and mobile technologies.
- On-demand and algorithmic culture.
- Social gaming, media and engagement.
Assumed knowledge
60 units at 1000 level.
Assessment items
Project: Podcast
Report: Research report
Project: Digital Project
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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