Reframing Media: Objects, Sites, Histories

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307MRMO Z 1 English, Czech summer

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will take part in an academic symposium – they will become acquainted with the formats of scholarly presentations and discussions and will be introduced to current issues in media research.

Mode of study

full-time

Prerequisites and co-requisites

none

Course contents

Media studies has opened up new avenues of research across fields, helping to reframe the objects, sites, and histories of scholarly inquiry, providing a way to challenge accepted historical layers of social and technical arrangements. This symposium draws together critical intersections with media, applying postcolonial and feminist theories to contextualize and frame the mediated landscape, both past and present. Drawing from a variety of entangled theories and methodologies, authors engage with a variety of approaches, providing new insights for scholars from an array of backgrounds. This symposium also engages media itself through a media archaeological approach, reframing and interrogating our media so as to shed new understanding to our hyper-mediated world.

Recommended or required reading

Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archaeology? Polity Press 2012.

Jussi Parikka, Erkki Huhtamo (eds.), Media Archaeology. University of California Press 2011.

Jussi Parikka, Geology of Media. University of Minnesota Press 2015.

Assessment methods and criteria

attending the symposium and writing a 1-page critical review (must be sent to tomdvorak@famu.cz by May 25)

Note

21.5.2018, 14:00–17:30, U1

Further information

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