Digital media technologies are increasingly central to society, culture and everyday life. They mediate individual experience, reconfigure communities and build connections into networks. This unit introduces key theories and explores the role of digital media in visuality, feelings, identities, power relations, activist practices, mobilities and algorithmic cultures. Students are equipped with tools for researching digital cultures and sociality to design a research project using ethnographic and/or text-mining methods.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Media and Communications |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Chris Chesher, chris.chesher@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Chris Chesher, chris.chesher@sydney.edu.au |
Tutor(s) | Eugenia Lee, eugenia.lee@sydney.edu.au |
Habib Moghimi, habib.moghimi@sydney.edu.au |