Bcm301 Week 1 Slides

Dr Chris Moore (Lecturer Digital Communications and Media Studies) [email protected]

BCM = Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies …

Specialisations Journalism Advertising and Marketing

Screen Studies Digital Communication

History of Media and Communication?

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History 2.0 a collaborative and user-generated approach to the history media and communication

Subject Description Through a study of user-generated cultures, this subject traces the influence of media and communication forms throughout history: from orality and print culture, to music, the screen and the web. The subject examines communication technologies and media practices from present, past and the near future. Uncovering the practices and trends of regulation, Use, preservation and disposal of media and communication technologies is central to the critical approach developed. The subject concludes with a comprehensive and nuanced understanding our contemporary digital media culture from the context of historical antecedents.

… How important are Facebook profiles, YouTube videos, Twitter 'tweet's and Wikipedia corrections to us now, in 10 years time, in 100? Will our use of media and communication technologies have economic value or cultural worth in the future and on what scale? Do the environmental and social costs of media and communications technologies change over time?  To what extent should attempts be made to maintain and preserve existing technologies and practices?

1) 27 July

Break it down…

2) 3 August

Assumptions of History - Tutorials Start

3) 10 August

History 2.0

4) 17 August

User-Generated Histories

5) 24 August

Tag You're It

Introduction No Tutorials Week 1

Annotated Bibliography due Tuesday August 25, by 3pm. 6) 31 August

Googleocracy or Googlearchy?

7) 7 September Uncovered: Storming the Museum

8) 14 September

The Public Domain: pirates and plundering the past

9) 21 September

Music History: The Amen Breakbeat 28 September MID SESSION RECESS

10) 6 October

Punks, Pranks, Freaks and Geeks

11) 12 October

Commons: past, present and future

12) 19 October

Guest Lecture

13) 26 October

Conclusion

14) 2 November

STUDY RECESS Collaborative History Project Submission due Monday by 4pm.

Channels of Communication Lecture

Delicious

Tutorial

Google Docs

Consultation

Wiki

Email

YouTube

Twitter

Lecture Tuesday 15:30-17:30 67-104

Tutorials Tuesday 5.30pm – 6.30pm rm 19.2003 Tuesday 6.30pm – 7.30pm rm 19.2003 Wednesday 3.30pm – 4.30pm rm 19.2003 Wednesday 4.30pm – 5.30pm rm 19.2001

Friday 9am – 12pm 19.2018 4221 5459

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DIGC_Dr_Moore

Delicious.com Jo Guldi BCM301_History2.0 Crypticon

YouTube History2Point0 http://www.youtube.com/user/joguldi http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch A vision of students today

History 2.0 refers to the accumulation of practices of media

and communication consumption that includes our abandoned MySpace pages and forgotten logins to old email accounts, as much to the performances we employ to

manage these technologies and our social connectivity via them in our daily lives. We make history in 2009.

Participatory Networked Geography Consumption madSkillz

History 2.0 is open source at its core, in that the subject is collaborative, open and invites participation. Students, will be contributing to this

subject through a variety of media and communication forms.

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low cost to access

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support artistic freedom

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creative expression

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civic engagement

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open management of resources and

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promote the extension of networks of social production.

Theory Practice Regulation

Geography People AND Places

consumption

Skills and Literacies

Playful

experimental approach to problem solving

improvisational and explorative identity

Simulation

Digital Literacie

Remix Mashup Sample Copy License Give Credit

Digital Literacies

ssess environments nd shift focus to ddress critical sues.

understand the meaningful use of tools to expand mental capacities

Collective Intelligence

pool resources, compare notes and coproduce common knowledge

employ critical evaluation and understand the credibility of different information sources

Judgment

Transmedia Navigation

Negotiation

History 2.0 A History of Users

Assessments On the books: Reading Assignments (4x700 words) 30% Mid-session test 20% Critical Review (1,000 words) 10% Essay (1,500-2,000 words) 20% Summary test 20%

Annotated bibliography (15x150 words), Week 5, 30%. Group Production/Presentation Weeks 5-11, 30%. Major Project (2000 words), Week 12, Tuesday October 20,

40%

15 websites very brief annotation (150 words) ‘theme’ of History 2.0 Week 5, Tuesday August 25, by 3pm 30%.

Group Production/Presentation 30%

Major Project Presented Week 12, Tuesday October 20 40%. (2000 words individual report)

Anti-Teaching Commitment to focus less on trying to convey good information and more on attempting to inspire good questions. Meaning and significance are assured only when our learning fits with our own motivations and grand narratives (Wesch, 2008; 6)

To Think About… What histories interest you? How can you apply the skills you

have, or need, to help you frame good questions?

What does it mean to participate?

Next week Week 2 - Week beginning 3 August Lecture: Assumptions of History 1.0 Guest starring Dr Kate Bowles Historical chronologies and their political contexts.

Challenging the histories written by the winners and re-examining teleological event histories and their focus on the temporality of innovation and political economy, rather than the spatiality of diffusion.