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Module Title
Module Code (ITS: CM5037)
Faculty School
NFQ level Credit Rating
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.


WorkloadFull time hours per semester
TypeHoursDescription
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
Assessment 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;
RC1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module.
RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element.

* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None

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.

Indicative Reading List

Books:
  • 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.,


Articles:
  • Skains, R.L.: 2018, Creative practice as research: discourse on methodology.,, Media practice and education, 19(1, 82-97, 65284
  • 2010: Falling in love with online games: The uses and gratifications perspective, Computers in Human Behavior, 26(6),, 1862, 65285, 1
  • Metaphors in critical Internet and digital media studies.: New media & society,, 23(2, 406,
Other Resources

  • Academic Journal: Leonardo: 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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