Digital cultures 1.S3.EP.ECS.8

Course objectives
The aim of the course is to make students familiar with various aspects of digital culture and new forms of expression accompanying the process of the transformation of traditional culture under the influence of technological revolution.
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Course content
1. A history of the new media and digital culture.
2. Major theorists and methodologies applied in the study of the new media and digital culture.
3. The concept of cyberculture and Web 2.0.
4. The new media and digital culture and copyrights.
5. Digital culture and politics.
6. Traditional culture and the challenge of digitalization and globalization.
7. Posthumanism – challenges and hopes.
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Methods of instruction/ forms of classroom activity:
ICT tools/MSTeams, multimedia presentation, extensive reading, discussion

Field of study

English Philology

Student workload

ECTS points in relation to student’s duties total number of ECTS points: 3 1 ECTS – 30 hours: participation in classes 2 ECTS – 45 hours: preparation + 15 hours: consultations

Study level

BA level studies

Education profile

full-time studies academic profile

Type of course

elective courses

The semester in which the subject is carried out

semester 6

Mode

(in Polish) Realizowany w sali

Requirements

English and Culture Studies elective module

Course coordinators

Małgorzata Adams-Tukiendorf

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes acc to PRK 2019

Knowledge
1. The student will have a general knowledge of terminology, theories, and methodology applied in the study of digital culture and the new electronic media (m-W-1/P6S_WG)
2. The student will recognize and understand major issues related to intellectual property and copyrights on the Internet. (k_W10/P6S_WK)

Skills
3. The student will be able to recognize and interpret texts characteristic of digital culture and determine their meanings and impact in socio-cultural process (m-U-2/P6S_UW)

Social competences
4. The student will be ready to participate in various forms of cultural life in a digitalised form (k_K04/P6S_KO)
5. The student will be ready to make responsible and ethical use of digitalised cultural products and practices in- and out-of-classroom, including disseminating information that is credible and relevant (m-K-1/P6S_KR)

Assessment criteria

Forms of evaluation of learning outcomes

1. Active participation in classes, an analysis and interpretation of texts, films, information and multimedia materials - 30% of the final grade (outcome 3,4,5)
2. Reading assignments 30% of the final grade (outcome 1,2,3,4)
3. A written test - 40% of the final grade (outcome 1,2)

Pass at 60% of the final grade

Bibliography

Reading list
Creeber, Glen, and Royston Martin. 2009. Digital cultures. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill Open University Press.
Gere, Charlie. 2008. Digital culture. Expanded 2nd ed. London: Reaktion.
Lister, Martin. 2009. New media: a critical introduction. 2nd ed. ed. London: Routledge.

Supplementary reading:
Campanelli, Vito, Francesco Bardo, and Nicole Heber. 2010. Web aesthetics: how digital media affect culture and society. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers; Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
Doueihi, Milad. 2011. Digital cultures. [American ed.]. ed. Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press.
Everett, Anna, and John Thornton Caldwell. 2003. New media: theories and practices of digitextuality. New York ; London: Routledge.
Manovich, Lev. 2001. The language of new media. Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press.

Additional information

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