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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Emerging Media
Module Code CM3007 (ITS) / ICT1037 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School Communications
Module Co-ordinatorMarcos Dias
Module TeachersTrish Morgan
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 10
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Coursework Only
Description

This module provides a platform for showcasing trends in emerging media across the field of multimedia production. It observes and evaluates new, innovative, experimental and emerging works in domains of audio, acoustics, video, interactive media, physical computing, online media, image and moving image, and the Internet of Things. It surveys the 'state of the art' in these various domains and critically reports on key new practices.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate where and how to research nascent forms of media that are not yet established in the canon
2. Evaluate new, emerging and experimental forms of media
3. Report on key trends in multimedia
4. Situate emerging media forms and trends with regard to contemporary commercial, social, and artistic uses
5. Critically assess and relate the impact of emerging media on established forms
6. Assess the ideological and psychological impact of emerging media with reference to the relevant theoretical material



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture22Lectures and showcases on emerging media
Independent Study103Independent research on multiple facets of emerging media across fields of video, audio, image, interaction, physical computing.
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Lectures
Lectures by staff who specialise in an area of emerging media. Frameless (360) video; attention, immersion and narrative. Spatial audio; audience and experience. eLearning; interaction, innovation and user experience. Still and moving image: art contexts, trends and multimedia contexts. Physical computing: data, networks and narrative. Interaction: installation, planning, diverse I/Os.

Showcases
Screenings and/or demonstrations of examples of emerging media to include emerging trends in video, audio, e-learning, still and moving image, physical computing and interaction.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Report(s)Idenitfy/report on emerging media40%n/a
EssaySituate and apply emerging media to various contexts.60%n/a
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List

  • edited by Hazel Smith, Roger T. Dean: 2009, Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 9780748636297
  • Estelle Barrett (Editor), Barbara Bolt (Editor): 0, Practice as Research, I. B. Tauris, 9781848853010
  • Margot Lovejoy: 2004, Digital currents, Routledge, New York, 0–415–30781–3
  • Craig Hanks (Editor): 2010, Technology and Values, Wiley-Blackwell, 1405149000
  • Scharff, R.C. and Dusek, V. eds: 2013, Philosophy of Technology, New York; Wiley, 9781118722718
  • edited by Seth Giddings with Martin Lister.: 2010, The new media and technocultures reader, New York; Routledge, 0415469139
Other Resources

27010, Website, 0, Neural, http://neural.it/, 27011, Website, 0, Furtherfield, http://furtherfield.org/, 27012, Website, 0, Ars Electronica, http://www.aec.at/news/en/, 27013, Website, 0, Rhizome, http://rhizome.org/, 27014, Website, 0, Hyperallergic, http://hyperallergic.com/, 27019, Academic Journal, 0, Leonardo, https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116, 27020, Academic Journal, 0, Leonardo Music Journal, https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/119, 27021, Academic Journal, 0, Journal of Media Practice, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjmp20, 27022, Academic Journal, 0, Screenworks, http://screenworks.org.uk/,

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