Digital and Social Media Development Futures
UndergraduateCUR-WEB3002024
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Work as part of a small team to deliver innovative web media content that encourages user participation. Strengthen your understanding of audiences and how they engage online. Predict future advances in the field of internet communications.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Digital and Social Media Development Futures
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- develop, produce and effectively present professional digital and social media projects
- create digital portfolios which are industry-standard and embodying principles of discoverability, digital and social media concepts such as convergence and spreadability
- appropriately apply principles of discoverability, spreadability, convergence and participation across multiple social media platforms and digital media formats to produce effective integrated web media
- critically evaluate the social and ethical challenges and opportunities of producing digital and social media
- discuss possible future developments in the industrial, creative and social contexts of digital and social media production
- 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?
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.
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- Digital & Social Media Outreach (40%)
- Digital & Social Media Artefact (30%)
- Essay (30%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
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
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:
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Arts (Digital and Social Media)
UndergraduateCUR-NET-DEG
Bachelor of Arts (Digital and Social Media) (Professional Writing and Publishing)
UndergraduateCUR-ICP-DEG
Bachelor of Arts (Digital and Social Media) (Visual Culture)
UndergraduateCUR-ICV-DEG
Bachelor of Arts (Digital Experience and Interaction Design) (Digital and Social Media)
UndergraduateCUR-DDI-DEG
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) (Digital and Social Media)
UndergraduateCUR-FAI-DEG
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