Media Ecologies
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours face to face + blended
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Aims and objectives
This unit introduces theories and approaches for understanding the dynamic ecologies generated by new media technologies, practices and processes. A ‘media ecologies’ approach considers the complex interrelation between technologies and platforms, people, communities, practices and commercial and political interests. In doing so, Media Ecologies aims to foster a critical awareness of new and emerging media processes and uses, as well as arm participants with the tools to undertake their own research and analysis.
1. Evaluate current research methodologies for disciplinary knowledge of new media technologies, practices and processes
2. Prepare and deliver an oral presentation that evaluates current research into one area of dynamic media practice addressed within the unit
3. Plan and undertake research into a significant issue concerning a dynamic site of media use and practice.
4. Define, describe and analyse core concepts, theories and issues facing practitioners in new media environments
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
2. Prepare and deliver an oral presentation that evaluates current research into one area of dynamic media practice addressed within the unit
3. Plan and undertake research into a significant issue concerning a dynamic site of media use and practice.
4. Define, describe and analyse core concepts, theories and issues facing practitioners in new media environments
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Lecture | 1 | 12 | 12 |
On-Campus Class (tutorial) | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 10 | 10 | 100 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 3.5 | 10 | 14 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Research Essay | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 4 |
| Assessment | Individual | 30% | 1, 2, 4 |
| Oral Presentation | Individual | 30% | 1, 2, 3 |
Content
- Infrastructures of the new: broadcast, networks, wirelessness and beyond.
- Screen media beyond broadcast TV and Cinema.
- Health, illness and networked technologies.
- Technologies for political engagement and protest.
- Crisis communication, new media and humanitarianism.
- Mobile and locative media ecologies: From utility to play (and back again).
- Telework and the always-on lifestyle.
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Teamwork roles and processes
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials/and or textbooks will be made available in the Unit Outline.