Universität Wien

230199 UK New Media, Technology & Society (2010S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work

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Details

max. 40 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 09.03. 13:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 16.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 23.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 13.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 20.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 04.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 18.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 01.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 08.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 15.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG
  • Tuesday 29.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Seminarraum Physik Sensengasse 8 EG

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Aims, contents and method of the course

This undergraduate lecture will address the interaction of new media, technology and society. It will provide an historical overview of various media technologies & their creators in their social contexts as well link successive media eras along a genealogical continuum. The lecture will conclude with a critical evaluation of new media technologies & their creators like the Internet and Mobile Telephony and their role in shaping individual identity, group solidarity and local and global culture. The course will be based on weekly lectures, readings, and documentary & fiction films that feature debates about how media shapes and is shaped by social change. A novel theory named "Systems of Accountability" will also be presented that strategically places new media at the center of contemporary global environmental and social debates.

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