SM6345 - Media Cultures Theory X Practice Summer Seminar | ||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
This course aims to operationalise the knowledge gained from MACM courses in cultural studies, aesthetics and critical theories of production studies and new media. The course asks: how do academic theories and discourses relate to professional practices in the field, and vice versa? The course takes the form of a postgraduate seminar. The purpose of the seminar is to enhance the students’ understanding of how the theoretical perspectives they have learned relate to the concrete milieus of cultural production (creative industries, artistic institutions and cultural organisations). This is intended as complementing the theoretical knowledge the students have developed in the previous semesters of study in the fields of cultural studies, aesthetics, critical production studies and critical theories of new media. The students will do research on specific professional contexts related to cultural production; the goal is to understand the multi-directional relationships, translations, overlaps, frictions, synergies, and omissions between academic discussions and real-world practices in cultural field, by describing how the professional contexts could potentially inform and be informed by a range of theoretical approaches from cultural studies, aesthetics, critical production studies and critical theories of new media. The emphasis is put on ways to operationalise the theoretical knowledge towards concrete professional contexts of cultural production. As such, this summer course is contributing to the MACM’s concentration “Interventions in Media Cultures” which fosters students’ capacity to intervene in the social, mediatic, regulatory, urban environment. This concentration takes advantage of the strong integration of the School of Creative Media with its cultural, artistic and economic regional context. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 100% | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
| SM6345.pdf | ||||||||
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