The aim of this subject is to introduce students to key issues relating to electronic media technologies. In particular, it aims to provide them with frameworks for understanding the genealogies of new media and their relationships to older technologies. Students will be asked such questions as:  What is a medium?  What is technology?  What is culture?  How do these interact with each other?

Workshops and Tutorials

Participation/reading journal/discussion list 25%, review 25%, major essay/project 50%.

As well as encouraging students to think through issues relating to new media, this subject aims to provide students with both the experience of using and the skills to use new technologies effectively. The subject will be delivered using a combination of face to face teaching and all of the above technologies (hypertext, email, Chat, wikis, blogs and social software). Students will be required to submit work for assessment in a similar array of formats.

Murphie, A & Potts, J Culture & Technology (London: Palgrave, 2002).
Johnson, S Interface Culture: How new technology transforms the way we create and communicate, Harper Collins, 1997.