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Media. Culture and Technology is the home of interdisciplinary Media Studies in the Bachelor of Arts at UNSW. On this site you'll be able to find course information, general information about internships, freebies, tweet feeds from lecturers and fellow students and other useful things. But most importantly, it is a space to shre ideas and research about all that is relevant in this constantly updating and exciting mediascape in which we are all immersed. * Image : Screen Snap from EPIC 2015. Museum of Media History click image to watch.
Fibreculture Journal
Fibreculture Journal is a peer reviewed international journal that explores the issues and ideas of concern and interest to both the Fibreculture network and wider social formations. The journal encourages critical and speculative interventions in the debate and discussions concerning information and communication technologies and their policy frameworks, network cultures and their informational logic, new media forms and their deployment, and the possibilities of socio-technical invention and sustainability. Other broad topics of interest include the cultural contexts, philosophy and politics of: :: information and creative industries :: national and international strategies for innovation, research and development :: education :: media and culture, and :: new media arts fibreculture journal is edited by Assoc Prof Andrew Murphie, who teaches in Modes Of Publishing, Media Innovation and Advanced Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Thinking About Honours in Media Culture Technology (MCT)?
The current Honours Seminar for MCT is BODIES, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA.----The course investigates the major developments and current debates in cultural theory as they relate to contemporary media (and mediatisation) with a particular focus on the technical and cultural entanglements of mobility, bodies and media. How do emerging technologies impact upon the body, how it moves, what it can perceive and do, and how it, in turn, is perceived and acted upon? In order to explore these questions, we will be taking an arc through key texts by Foucault and interspersing them with insights from Benjamin, Deleuze, Massumi and Virilio. In particular, we will be applying their concepts to case studies in cultural media – from Butoh to Biometrics, Film Screens to Computer screens and beyond. We will be thinking through such questions as what is a body and what new spaces, visions and experiences are possible in contemporary culture.
from 2009, S2, Global Media: Markets, Cultures and Flows (Level 2 6 UOC)
Global Media: Markets, Cultures and Flows focuses on the relationship between media and globalisation. We will examine the history of international trade flows in audiovisual goods and services and explore how these have changed through global trends toward regionalisation, counter flow and the increasing transnational production and distribution of media. Newly emerging forms of culture and identity based on the experience of cosmopolitanism, hybridity and diaspora will be examined in detail in relation to media forms such as television formats and drama programs, networked media, film and music. Students completing this course will receive a thorough grounding in the way media contribute to the intensification of our experience of the world as a whole, which will pave the way for further study in international and transnational media. Scott Shaner