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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Emerging Media Praxis
Module Code CM5037 (ITS) / ICT1041 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School Communications
Module Co-ordinatorDeclan Tuite
Module TeachersAndreas Aurelio Rauh Ortega
NFQ level 9 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Coursework Only
Description

Emerging Media Praxis offers a space presenting and analysing trends in emerging media. It will employ an intermedia and historically informed comparative approach for studying emergent media forms. Students will critically investigate emerging media and develop the ability to communicate theoretical insights that will contribute to their practice based work. Through engagement with the course material students will be able to reflect upon the ethical and social implications of developments within the field of state of the art media productions. Students will develop appropriate practice-based research strategies to investigate and ways computational media are embedded in the cultural, aesthetic structures of society. Students will explore both the current practices of media producers in emerging media contexts, along with novel insights about emerging media and the way it affects our lives, families, and businesses.

Learning Outcomes

1. present and analyse trends in emerging media
2. reflect upon the ethical and social implications of developments within the field of state of the art media productions
3. develop appropriate practice-based research strategies to investigate and ways computational media are embedded in the cultural, aesthetic structures of society.
4. situate emerging media forms and trends with regard to contemporary commercial, social, and artistic uses
5. communicate theoretical insights that will contribute to practise based work.



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture22Lectures and showcases on emerging media
Assignment Completion36Enhanced Essay design, development and delivery
Assignment Completion22Write up and reporting on enhanced essay with theoretical contextualisation
Fieldwork25Data gathering through engagement with emerging media artefacts and installation, gallery, conference attendance
Directed learning20Review of Emerging Media and key literatures
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

Emerging Media Trends
Exemplar of media forms showcases and analysed:- Branching Narrative - non-linear Storytelling - Interactive Film Tactile Digital Media Participatory Story, Co-Creation, Civic Media, XR - Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality Experience Industry ( Alternate Reality Gaming/Escape Rooms/Immersive Augmented Theatre / Live Events) Ephemeral Media Storytelling - (snapchat etc) Data Storytelling Location sensitive media. Bio-responsive/Bio-connected Story

Frameworks
Pleasure / Spectacle / Carnival. Remediation and Remix. Convergence. Place and Space. Embodiment, Haptics and the body as a site of knowledge / interface

Who engages - why they engage.
Who engages: Defining audiences - usages, demographics and culture. Why engage: uses and gratification, information needs, pleasure, social needs and belonging.

Practice Based Research.
Understanding practice as research in media creation. Situating and contextualising practice based research artefacts.

Ethical and social implications of developments within emerging media productions
Understanding emerging media as embedded in the cultural, aesthetic structures of society. Explore both the current practices of media producers in emerging media contexts, along with novel insights about emerging media and the way it affects our lives, families, and businesses.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Digital ProjectProduce an enhanced essay that identify a key theoretical principles form the course and apply to an emerging media - the enhance essay may tate the format of visual essay, podcast / audio piece, eBook or small interactive piece.60%Week 12
EssayWritten essay to offer reflection and contextualisation on enhanced essay/case study40%Sem 1 End
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

  • Erin Pangilinan (Author), Steve Lukas (Author), Vasanth Mohan (Author): 2019, Creating Augmented and Virtual Realities: Theory and Practice for Next-Generation Spatial Computing, O'Reilly Media, 978-149204419
  • Gambarato, R.R., Alzamora, G.C. and Tárcia, L.,: 2020, Theory, development, and strategy in transmedia storytelling., Routledge.,
  • Sullivan, John L.: 2019, Media Audiences: Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power, 2nd, Sage, London,
  • Freeman, M. and Gambarato, R.R. eds.,: 2018, The Routledge companion to transmedia studies., Routledge.,
  • Kelly McErlean: 2018, Interactive Narratives and Transmedia Storytelling, Routledge, 978-113863882
  • Virginia Nightingale: 2011, The Handbook of Media Audiences, Wiley-Blackwell., Oxford:,
  • Hazel Smith, Roger T. Dean: 2009, Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 9780748636297
  • Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry: 2010, Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry, I.B. Tauris, 978-184885301
  • Couldry, N., Madianou, M. and Pinchevski, A.,: 2013, Ethics of media, Palgrave Macmillan UK., London:,
  • Patricia Leavy: 2015, Method Meets Art, Second Edition: Arts-Based Research Practice, The Guilford Press;, 978-146251332
  • Robert C. Scharff: 2014, Philosophy of Technology, Wiley-Blackwell, 978-111854725
  • Ronald Sandler (Editor): 2016, Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-02303670
  • Smith, H. ed.,: 2009, Practice-led research, research-led practice in the creative arts., Edinburgh University Press.,
Other Resources

64625, Academic Journal: Leonardo, 0, Leonardo, MIT Press, https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/116,
While filling in the ATHENA SWAN FORMS - I noticed LOOP readings had gotten ahead of course builder - this edit updates the readings to reflect the most current readings

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