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THE BOOKS FOR SUMMER SEMESTER 2011/2012:
1) Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6) 2) Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4) Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (10.02.2013)
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THE AIM OF THE COURSE: The goal of the course is to deepen students´understanding of paradigmatic divergences and convergences in media studies. The course also strives to sensitize students´capacities to read the course books in context of other texts. Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (10.02.2013)
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READING LIST Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. Deetz S, Hegbloom M (2007) Situating the Political Economy and Cultural Studies Conversation in the Processes of Living and Working, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 4(3): 323-326. Garnham N (1995) Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce? Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12(1): 62-72. Grossberg L (1995) Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate? Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12(1): 72-82. Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (10.02.2013)
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TEACHING METHODS 1) Two books (selected chapters) are read during the course. 2) The books are read by chapters. Every session deals with a new chapter. 3) The book chapters must be read carefully in advance as homework. For each session students must read the assigned chapter (and apply text-processing techniques, e.g. taking notes, underlying with colored pencils, highlighting incomprehensible passages, etc.) 4) The course books are selected so that they represent opposing views on the issue of new media. The reading is scheduled in a particular order so that the next chapter represents a counter position to the previous chapter. Students should constantly compare what they read with what they read before and develop a sense for the differences. Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (10.02.2013)
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Requirements to be met to receive the credits: 1) Obligatory class attendance and active participation in group discussions. (One absence which is not formally excused is allowed per student.) 2) In-class presentations of key points to be presented in the essay 3) Submission of the final essay.
Instructions for final essays: Final essays should be 750-1000 words. The essays should summarize two (opposing) chapters selected from the list of the course readings. It should have the following structure: - the title of the chapters which are summarized in the essay - summary of the main arguments presented in the first chapter - contrasting the arguments of the first chapter with the ones of the second chapter - essays must include in-text references to the literature and final bibliography with respect to this referencing style: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdf/SAGE_Harvard_reference_style.pdf
In-class presentation: In-class presentations should be prepared in Power-point (or equivalent presentational software). Each presentation should be 5 minutes long and include these parts: main argument of chapter 1, main argument of chapter 2, explanation of the differences of the arguments
Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (18.02.2013)
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THE BOOKS FOR SUMMER SEMESTER 2011/2012: 1) Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. (Chapters 2, 4, 5, 6) 2) Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4)
The seminar timetable: Feb 19: Opening session - rules and principles of the seminar, FAQ´s
Feb 26: cancelled
March 5: cancelled
March 12: Opening lecture "Users and owners in the digital age: critical and cultural paradigms in the study of new media" The lecture will introduce the main paradigms in the study of new media - it will explain how the long lasting conflict between political economy and cultural studies spread across internet studies and found its new site in this field. Critical theory (and its and cultural studies will be first introduced in general as key paradigms in media studies. Afterwards, it will be shown how the two perspectives are usually applied in the study of new media (critical impact on the revenues and power of corporations and cultural focus on audiences agency) and the main concepts of both approaches will be listed and explained (participation, agency, empowerment x commodification, profit, individualism). Further reading for the opening lecture: Garnham N (1995) Political Economy and Cultural Studies: Reconciliation or Divorce? Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12(1): 62-72. Grossberg L (1995) Cultural Studies vs. Political Economy: Is Anybody Else Bored with this Debate? Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 12(1): 72-82. Deetz S, Hegbloom M (2007), Situating the Political Economy and Cultural Studies Conversation in the Processes of Living and Working, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 4(3): 323-326.
March 19: reading 1 · Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 2: Cultural Studies, Creative Indistries, and Cultural Science, pp. 27-58.
March 26: reading 2 · Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. Chapter 1: Reinterpreting the internet, pp. 3-33.
Apr 2: reading 3 · Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 4: The Distribution of Public Thought, pp. 94-116.
Apr 9: reading 4 · Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. Chapter 2: Rethinking internet history, pp. 33-66.
Apr 16: reading 5 · Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 5: Television goes on line, pp. 117-132.
Apr 23: reading 6 · Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. Chapter 3: Web 2.0 and the death of the blockbuster economy, pp. 69-94
April 30: reading 7 · Hartley J (2012) Digital Futures for Media and Cultural Studies. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 6: Silly Citizenship, pp. 133-154.
May 7: reading 8 · Curran J, Fenton N, Freedman D (2012) Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge. Chapter 4: Outsourcing internet regulation, pp. 95-120. State holidays
May 14: reading week
May 21: in-class presentations Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (18.02.2013)
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Advanced English language skills. Last update: Reifová Irena, doc. PhDr., Ph.D. (10.02.2013)
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