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Web Media
Postgraduate | CUR-MIC509 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
View information for 2020 course intakeCreate digital content and understand how the Internet has blurred the boundaries between media production and consumption. Get to know the new business models and how participatory media has remixed and redistributed traditional media forms.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
FEE-HELP available
Web Media
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- present arguments that explore the cultural and social dynamics of converging and participatory media
- critically analyse how communications and media are encoded for the Internet
- apply the affordances of new web media platforms and services
- explore the new media affordances of web applications and services
- anticipate commercial trends in Web Media.
- Introduction
- Television & Film
- Music
- Games
- Photography
- Creating Reflective Web Media
- Remix // Mashup // Copyright
- Transmedia & Fan-Created Content
- YouTube Creativity & Participatory Culture
- Mobile Media & Apps
- Spreadability
For at least twenty years, we have seen a trend towards 'convergence' in the media, as new social understandings and new business models emerge that break down the distinction between traditional media forms (print and broadcast news, films and games, and so on). We have also seen the development of social or participatory media, without rigid boundaries between consumers, creators and producers. The Internet has played a critical role in these processes, becoming the key frame of reference for discussions of the future of converging and participatory media. In particular, the World Wide Web enables the production, distribution, remixing and remediation of an extraordinary array of digital media content and the linking together of otherwise separate media forms. In this subject, you will investigate why and how media are transforming in the era of convergence and participation, and then put these insights into practice by creating web-based media content.
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- Essay (30%)
- The Pitch (20%)
- Web Media Creation (50%)
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Entry requirements
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Equivalent subjects
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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