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Theories of New Media and Internet
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:8.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:25:47
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_115 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Communication Sciences | Target Audience: | Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Lāsma Šķestere | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 4 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 8 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Media theories. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop theoretical knowledge of students in the field of new media, to master basic network theories and their history, to promote the understanding of network and society as a network, to teach skills to use network mapping programmes in society and communication research, to master competences in current modern technology and network development trends and related social processes. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | New media theories. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | New media principles and laws. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Network theories. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Network mapping. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Translocal communities and local nets. Creative and social networks. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Mobile and hybrid networks. Current modern network community problems. Final presentations. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Studies of literature, mapping task, final paper – report. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance of lectures and seminars and quality of answers, quality of the work and report, quality of examination answers. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Masters understand the specifics of new media communication in the context of traditional media communication, find their way around new media and network communication theoretical models and know concepts of main theorists. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Masters are able to use specific properties of new media in their communication practice and communication planning and management. Masters skilfully communicate in the internet using multimedia and network structure properties for their purposes. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are competent to use, create and analyse networks. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Manovičs, Ļevs. Jauno mediju valoda. (tulk.) Rīga: RIXC, 2006. | ||||||||
| 2 | Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, Nick Montfort (ed.). New Media Reader. The MIT Press, 2003 | ||||||||
| 3 | Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. Vol. 1: The Information Age. Economy, Society and Culture. Blackwell Publishers, 2000 (1st ed. – 1996). | ||||||||
| 4 | Lovink, Geert. Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture. Routledge, 2007 | ||||||||
| 5 | Kluitenberg, Eric. Delusive Spaces: Essays on Culture, Media and Technology. Amsterdam: NAi Publisher, 2008. | ||||||||
| 6 | Freeman, Linton. The Development of Social Network Analysis. Vancouver: Empirical Pres, 2006 | ||||||||
| 7 | Rheingold, Howard. Smart mobs: The Next Social Revolution. 2002 | ||||||||
| 8 | Rossiter, Ned. Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2006 | ||||||||
| 9 | Sassen, Saskia. Electronic markets and activist networks: the weight of social logics in digital formations. In: Latham, Robert and Saskia Sassen (eds.). Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm. Princeton University Press, 2005. | ||||||||
| 10 | Krebs, Valdis. Social Network Analysis, A Brief Introduction. | ||||||||
| 11 | Varnelis, Kazys. Network Culture. | ||||||||
| 12 | Chun, W. H. K. Updating to remain the same: Habitual new media. MIT press, 2016 | ||||||||
| 13 | Duhé, S. An overview of new media research in public relations journals from 1981 to 2014. Public Relations Review, (2015). 41(2), 153-169. | ||||||||
| 14 | Siapera, E. Understanding new media. Sage, 2017. | ||||||||
| 15 | Schroeder, R. (2018). Towards a theory of digital media. Information, Communication & Society, 21(3), 323-339. | ||||||||
| 16 | Wei, R., & Xu, L. Z. New Media and Politics: A Synopsis of Theories, Issues, and Research. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication, 2019 | ||||||||
| 17 | Couldry, N. Actor‐Network Theory. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy (2016): 1-7. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | del Fresno Garcia, M., Daly, A. J., & Segado Sanchez-Cabezudo, S. (2016). Identifying the new Influences in the Internet Era: Social Media and Social Network Analysis. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, (153). | ||||||||
| 2 | Dourish, P. Algorithms and their others: Algorithmic culture in context. Big Data & Society, 2016. 3(2), | ||||||||
| 3 | Lenton, T. M., & Latour, B. Gaia 2.0. Science, 2018. 361(6407), 1066-1068. | ||||||||
