Universität Wien

210124 SE M10: Kultur und Politik (2023W)

The Struggle for Survival - Political Dimensions of Outdoor Reality Formats (engl.)

9.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
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Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Das Seminar beginnt am 12.10.2023!

  • Donnerstag 12.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 19.10. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 09.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 16.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 23.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 30.11. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 07.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 14.12. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 11.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 18.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
  • Donnerstag 25.01. 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The hype triggered by the YouTube reality game show "7 vs. Wild - Season 2", which is considered the media event of the past winter in German-speaking countries, is perhaps the most impressive indication of the general interest in topics such as "Bushcraft" and "Survival" on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and other social media platforms.
Of course, the pop-cultural aesthetics, which combine trailers in traditional fashion, first-person shooter perspectives from video games, found footage format and GoPro aesthetics, have contributed to the hype. However, the enormous popularity of a format in which seven participants with a maximum of seven pieces of equipment of their choice hold out alone in the wilderness for seven days, master daily "challenges" and film themselves in the process, raises the question of what this has to do with current political and social trends.
Apart from the concrete example, this question also arises for the popularity of "outdoor/bushcraft/survival" topics and formats in general.
Against this background, the seminar uses examples taken from different social media platforms, but also from blogs, to reconstruct images and discourses conveyed in respective (pop-cultural) formats by means of visual and verbal stagings, and discusses their political significance.

The course is planned as a research seminar and will provide input in terms of both concepts/theories and research tools/methods.

The learning objective includes not only the acquisition of knowledge on the topic of the seminar but also the acquisition of research skills and experience in the implementation of a project based on the analysis of multi-modal research material.

Seminar Structure
- Introduction to seminar topic (course instructor)
- Presentation and discussion of seminal texts/mandatory reading and other relevant course material
- Discussion of suitable methods
- Guided group work on case studies in small research teams
- Oral presentations and subsequent discussion of preliminary research results by the research teams
- Research paper (can be written as individual or group work)

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Requirements
- Regular attendance
- Active participation in plenary discussions and in-class group work
- Written comments on assigned mandatory reading and presentation in-class
- Participation in guided research teams
- Oral presentation of preliminary research results
- Seminar paper (either in English or German language)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

- Regular attendance and active participation in plenary discussions and in-class group work: 10%
- Written comments on assigned mandatory reading and presentation in-class: 10%
- Participation in guided research teams and oral presentation of preliminary research results: 40%
- Seminar paper (either in English or German language): 40%

Submitted assignments will be checked (e.g. using the software Turnitin) with regard to plagiarism and AI generated content.

Prüfungsstoff

Not applicable. This is a course with continuous assessment.

Literatur

Relevant obligatory and also optional reading will be announced at the beginning of the course and on the e-learning platform Moodle.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Mi 04.10.2023 00:04