TELEVISION & DIGITAL CULTURES
| Title | TELEVISION & DIGITAL CULTURES / TELEVISION & DIGITAL CULTURES |
| Code | DIM104 |
| Faculty | Social and Economic Sciences |
| School | Journalism and Mass Communications |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate |
| Teaching Period | Spring |
| Coordinator | Vasileios Vamvakas |
| Common | Yes |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600000929 |
Programme of Study: Master of Arts in Digital Media, Communication and Journalism-R
Registered students: 11
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| European Journalism | Elective Courses | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Digital Media, Culture and Communication | Elective Course belonging to the selected specialization (Elective Specialization Course) | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Risk Communication and Crisis Journalism | Elective Courses | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
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| Class ID | 600247884
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Class Schedule
| Building | Αγρόκτημα - Εργαστήριο Εντομολογίας |
| Floor | Όροφος 4 |
| Hall | Αίθουσα Δ1 - Βασ.Ηρακλείου 12 (634) |
| Calendar | Mardi 19:30 to 22:00 |
Course Type 2021
Specialization / Direction
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600247884
- eLearning:
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1. Define core concepts and approaches in the study of TV culture and convergence culture.
2. Compare and contrast the different outcomes of televisual and digital cultures.
3. Effectively apply them in genealogical research of the audiovisual phenomena
4. Becoming aware of the complex interrelationship and interaction between entertainment, information and interactive spectacle
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Work autonomously
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course studies TV and digital media both as means of social, political and cultural representations and also as platforms of creating new public and private realities. On the one hand, it concentrates on the various ways television has culturally influenced the audiovisual culture of modern societies, the role that televisual codes play in the era of media convergence and the domination of social media (YouTube culture). In this framework, the terms of infotainment, tabloidization, glocalization, spectacle and surveillance culture are important to analyze. On the other hand, the course employs a sociological study of the basic dimensions of post-modern private and public sphere and the role the audiovisual media have played in their convergence. In this framework the terms of privatization, new communitarianism, individualization, democratization, are going to be discussed in the various ways they unfold in the chaotic digital world of information
Keywords
TV studies, popular culture, audience studies, convergence culture
Educational Material Types
- Slide presentations
- Multimedia
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 39 | ✓ | |||
| Reading Assigment | 60 | ✓ | |||
| Project | 30 | ||||
| Written assigments | 100 | ✓ | |||
| Other / Others | 30 | ✓ | |||
| Total | 259 |
Student Assessment
Description
Participation & Presentations – 40%
Presentations and verbal contributions by all students are essential. It is expected that students attend each class and participate actively in group discussions. Each student will be responsible for at least one presentation on weekly readings during the course, depending on enrolment. During the presentation, students present an effective summary of the prescribed reading, offer their insight into its arguments/significance and direct class discussion on it. In addition, students will make a conference-type presentation (15’ & ppt) of their final essay or project, in advance of its submission, aimed at fostering group discussion and using feedback to revise/improve final version.
Essay-projects – 60%
Each student will write an essay (roughly 5.000 words, incl. references). Essay topics, relevant to the areas covered by the course, are formulated and suggested by the students. A page-long summary of the proposed essay topic must be submitted for approval by the end of the 6th week of the course, at the latest. The topics can be traced in the following fields of the bibliography of the course (mixtures are welcomed)
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative)
Bibliography
Additional bibliography for study
• Amanda D. Lotz - We Now Disrupt This Broadcast. How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All,MIT Press 2018
• Ramon Lobato, Netflix Nations. The Geography of Digital Distribution-NYU Press,2019
• Jenkins, H. Convergence Culture, New York University Press, 2006
• Burgess J. and Green J. YouTube. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2009
• Langer, John. Tabloid Television: Popular Journalism and the "other News" London: Routledge, 1998.
• Kuipers, G. "Cultural Globalization as the Emergence of a Transnational Cultural Field: Transnational Television and National Media Landscapes in Four European Countries." American Behavioral Scientist 55, no. 5 (2011): 541-57.
Last Update
04-12-2023
