Syllabus
Evaluation:Active participation in the sessions as well as in the unit's Google + Community, and the execution of a practical team project, are required in order to successfully pass the unit. The project-based evaluation will ask the students to demonstrate their creative, critical and reflective thinking that is informed by a limited empricial research, academic literature as well as the latest media innovations. The practical projects will be highly individual, formed around students’ own interests and career aspirations. The students will develop either audio (e.g. radio podcast), audiovisual (e.g. online video) or visual presentation (e.g. infographic) of their innovative problem-solving idea informed by the latest and future technological innovations, as well as the secondary and primary research. The unit is designed specifically for self-depended and curious students who are keen to experiment and dive into learning by play and guided self-learning.
You can see some of Bournemouth University, Charles University and Metropolitan Univesity student projects here: 1. VIDEO iCinema
PlanStick https://youtu.be/KJPPYrpQ_Qk
Mira&Manu
Through My Eyes
Senect https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=169&v=1HA8Q7p1GFM
Family Tree
Manus TX
Ponto Datrix 2. AUDIO
Emotions
Aergos Technology
Alzheimer 3. VISUAL
Zleeping Glasses
Unit content and organisation:
The eighty-minute sessions are organised as seminars and workshops with a great emphasis on active participation. The discussions are being fueled mostly by the students’ own experience and discovery, and secondarily by cross-cultural and interdisciplinary academic and industry research and practice. Together with focusing on concrete emerging media platforms, and to them connected experiences and environments, the themes covered will be following:
Cross-platform media;
Transmedia narratives;
Convergence;
Life in media and media life;
Creativity, participation and innovation;
Remediation;
Immediacy and hypermediacy;
Future learning in/with/through media
Fourth industrial revolution
Internet of Things
Biotechnology
Annotation
The aim of the unit is to provide students with a thorough grounding in evolving media experiences. The unit frames the latest debates and trends in media consumption and creative production in relation to past, current and future media platforms and environments. Students will explore to emergent issues surrounding a more fluid relationship between hitherto perceived distinct media platforms blending into a one continuous and holistic experience within a complex and diverse media environment. By the end of semester students will acquire valuable conceptual frameworks for thinking critically and reflectively about media experiences, as well as feel inspired and capable of taking an active role in their current and potential (professional and personal) role within media and technological innovative uses, productions and developments.
Marketa has been teaching a similar unit designed for media professionals at Bournemouth University (UK) since 2013: https://www1.bournemouth.ac.uk/study/courses/future-media-platforms-environments-experiences