[edit] Aims & Objectives
On successful completion of this module students will:
- Have considered the influence of technology on human cognition and activity.
- Considered a number of case studies focussed on particular technologies and media.
[edit] Syllabus
- The influence of technology on cognition and activity.
- The relationship of Technology to Practice, Form, Content and Remediation.
- Case studies will consider the influences, consequences and interrelationship of media and thought, including:
- The written word, printing press, computer & digitisation, World Wide Web.
- Music instrument form, mnemonics, notation, recording, digitisation.
- The reproduced image, printing press, camera, film, television, digitisation.
- Narrative - orality, ritual & theatre/opera, illusion, interactive systems, sensors, virtual spaces, remediation
[edit] Reading list
- Paul, A. Mayer, Computer Media and Communication, Oxford Univ. Press, 1999.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, Routledge, 1964.
- Walter, J Ong, Orality and Literacy: Technologizing the Word, Routledge, 1999.
- H. Rheingold. Tools for Thought. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
- Michael Rush, New Media in Art, Thames and Hudson world of art, 2005.
[edit] Assessment
- Group assignment - contribution to a course wiki - 25%
- Semester exam - 75%
[edit] Lectures
* Mon - 3-4, CSG001
* Thu - 3-4, CSG001
[edit] Glossary
[edit] Formats
[edit] Audio Video
[edit] Human Computer Interaction
[edit] Computers and Internet
[edit] Social computing
[edit] Information Society