Digital and Social Media Development Futures

• • 1.1: Introduction: Your Self, Online
  • 1.2: Creating Digital and Social Media
  • 1.3: Present and Future Horizons
  • 1.4: Local/Global Engagement
  • 2.1: Digital Team Collaboration
  • 2.2: What's the Story? Narrative and Meaning
  • 2.3: Who and Where are Your Audience/s?
  • 2.4 Digital Artefact Production I
  • 2.5 Digital Artefact Production II
  • 3.1 Digital and Social Media Engagement I: Participatory Culture, Spreadability Transmedia, and Copyright Creative Commons and Copyright in Detail
  • 3.2 Digital and Social Media Engagement II
  • 3.3 Digital and Social Media Engagement III
  • 3.4 Conclusion: Where are you Heading?

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• CUR-MIC508-Digital and Social Media Development Futures

You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:

one of

• CUR-WEB207-Web Media
• CUR-WEB206-Writing on the Web
• CUR-NET204-Social Media, Communities and Networks
• CUR-NET205-The Digital Economy

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject was previously known as Web Development Project.

This is the capstone subject within the Digital and Social Media course and involves working to produce innovative online media content that both explores and embodies the qualities of discoverable, spreadable, streaming, converging and participatory media. You will primarily be engaged in pitching, planning and executing a small team project as well as building a professional industry standard online portfolio, including critical reflections on the challenges and opportunities of collaboratively producing digital and social media with each other and with potential others. You will also be required to critically situate and contextualise your learning in terms of the broader concepts and issues developed across all of your Digital and Social Media subjects, in particular, Web Media.

Further Information: The list of topics is indicative and subject to minor change prior to the start of each Study Period.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

• Digital & Social Media Outreach (40%)
• Digital & Social Media Artefact (30%)
• Essay (30%)

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