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Teaching Schedule and Links to Readings by Week
Week 1: Monday 3 March 2014
Course Introduction
Week 2:Monday 10 March 2014
Labour Public Holiday on Monday. No lecture or tutorials this week.
Week 3:Monday 17 March 2014
VHS Culture and the Active Audience
Reading:The Videocassette Recorder in the Home Media Environment Alan M. Rubin and Keren Eyal (2002) pgs. 329-336
https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/c633a660-dc02-4887-b58e-1030e115073d/1/130305_3_021.pdf
Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File SharingCaetlin Benson-Allott (2013) pgs. 1-7.
http://www.rmit.eblib.com.au.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1157661
Week 4:Monday 24 March 2014
Digital Culture and the Consumer as Producer
Reading:Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond, ‘The Key Characteristics of Produsage’, chapter 2, Axel Bruns (2008)
https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/09d6df6e-2acb-4127-939e-5fb1d180d3e4/1/140224_3_051.pdf
Week 5: Monday 31 March 2014
Archiving Cultural Memory
Reading:Weird Britain in Exile: Ghost Box, Hauntology, and Alternative Heritage Jamie Sexton (2012)
https://login.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/login?url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03007766.2011.608905
Week 6: Monday 7 April 2014
Digital Sound
Guest Lecture with Ben Byrne
Reading:Potts, J. 1995. “Schizochronia: Time in Digital Sound”, in: Cavallaro, A. Davies, S. Dyson, F. and Jonson, A. (eds). Essays in Sound 2: Technophonia. Sydney, Australia: Contemporary Sound Arts.
https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/efc598d3-149e-4fce-ab7b-be7513bcd9ee/1/140227_3_084.pdf
Week 7:Monday 14 April 2014
Audiences, Spectatorship and Ethics
Reading:Imagining the Audience Sue Turnball (2010)
https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/6a0fa120-7aa6-4b42-aeb6-b4c382f93e8e/1/140313_3_006.pdf
MID-SEMESTER BREAK 18 – 27 April
Week 8:Monday 28 April 2014
Viewing the Natural World: Technology, Gender and Environmental Politics
Reading:Sex, Bugs, and Isabella Rossellini: The Making and Marketing of “Green Porno” Sarah E. S. Sinwell (2010)
https://login.ezproxy.lib.rmit.edu.au/login?url=http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wsq/v038/38.3-4.sinwell.html
Week 9:Monday 5 May 2014
Girl Power and Culture Jamming
Reading: Harris, A.(2008). ‘Young Women, Late Modern Politics, and the Participatory Possibilities of Online Cultures’, Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 11, no. 5: 481-495.
http://primoapac01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/openurl/RMITU/RMIT_SERVICES_PAGE?sid=&issn=1367%2D6261&volume=11&issue=5&spage=481&date=2008&
PLEASE NOTE: THIS READING IS ALSO ATTACHED AS A PDF ABOVE (ANITA HARRIS READING)
Week 10: Monday 12 May 2014
Communication Technologies and Indigenous Knowledge
Reading: Indigenous Knowledge and the Cultural Interface: Underlying Issues at the Intersection of Knowledge and Information Systems Martin Nakata (2002)
http://primoapac01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/openurl/RMITU/RMIT_SERVICES_PAGE?sid=&issn=0340-0352&volume=28&issue=5&spage=281&date=2002&
PLEASE NOTE: THIS READING IS ALSO ATTACHED AS A PDF ABOVE READ PAGES 284-291 ONLY (NAKATA READING)
Week 11: Monday 19 May 2014
Spectres and Hauntings: Folklore and Communication Technology
Reading:“Introduction” (pgs. 1-12) Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television Jeffrey Sconce (2000)
https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/e97c4d7f-e396-4da0-8804-0601682b3817/1/140224_3_050.pdf
and “Chapter 1: Mediums and Media” (pgs. 21-28) Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television Jeffrey Sconce (2000)
https://equella.rmit.edu.au/rmit/file/64b79aa3-827e-461a-8fe4-897f98b89bb4/1/140224_3_043.pdf
Week 12: Monday 26 May 2014
TEST (Assessment #3) IN THE LECTURE TIME
There are no tutorials in week 12.
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1) Need around 250 words for each reading
2) Need a reflection, summary and additional questions for all
How to write a reflection:
Can you identify a key theme or idea that they cirtically explore? If so, do they critically explore it sufficiently?
What makes a reading critical? Here are some suggestions: brief historical analysis; brief discussion of different factors involved in a particular theme/idea.
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