Slides for week one of The Digital Mediascape.

1. The Digital Mediascape
CULS30001

2. STAFF
Coordinator: Daniel Golding
golding@unimelb.edu.au
digmedia2012.wordpress.com
@digmedia2012

3. Today’s lecture

4. Today’s lecture
- Exploring the boundaries of the subject

5. Today’s lecture
- Exploring the boundaries of the subject
- What is The Digital Mediascape?

6. Today’s lecture
- Exploring the boundaries of the subject
- What is The Digital Mediascape?
- Technology’s role

7. Today’s lecture
- Exploring the boundaries of the subject
- What is The Digital Mediascape?
- Technology’s role
- Marshall McLuhan

8. Today’s lecture
- Exploring the boundaries of the subject
- What is The Digital Mediascape?
- Technology’s role
- Marshall McLuhan
- Super 8

9. Today’s lecture
- Exploring the boundaries of the subject
- What is The Digital Mediascape?
- Technology’s role
- Marshall McLuhan
- Super 8
- Course outline, assessment

10. What is
The Digital
Mediascape?

11. the culture and
entertainment media
that results from the
prevalence of digital
technology

12. multimedia

13. new media

14. digital media

15. technology

16. Marshall
McLuhan

17. The Medium
is the
Message

22. we shape our tools and
thereafter they shape us

23. If it
works,
it’s obsolete

25. 1. Structure and form of
media is often more
important than content

26. 1. Structure and form of
media is often more
important than content
2. Media do things

27. 1. Structure and form of
media is often more
important than content
2. Media do things
3. Media are sometimes
visible, sometimes invisible

58. sent. So, perhaps we ought to add one more medium to those that
Facebook enhances: the tetrad itself.
Enhances Reverses into
The directory Campus life
The answering machine, the Adolescence
bulletin board High school
The yearbook, the diary
Immediacy, nowness
Retrieves Obsolesces
The small town, the The reunion
village, the main street Time, memory, the past
The hang-out, the boulevard, The secret
the soda shop, the arcade
The diary, the journal
8
Graham Harman, “The Tetrad and Phenomenology,” Explorations in Media

59. sent. So, perhaps we ought to add one more medium to those that
Facebook enhances: the tetrad itself.
Enhances Reverses into
The directory Campus life
The answering machine, the Adolescence
bulletin board High school
The yearbook, the diary
Immediacy, nowness
Retrieves Obsolesces
The small town, the The reunion
village, the main street Time, memory, the past
The hang-out, the boulevard, The secret
the soda shop, the arcade
The diary, the journal
8
Graham Harman, “The Tetrad and Phenomenology,” Explorations in Media

60. sent. So, perhaps we ought to add one more medium to those that
Facebook enhances: the tetrad itself.
Enhances Reverses into
The directory Campus life
The answering machine, the Adolescence
bulletin board High school
The yearbook, the diary
Immediacy, nowness
Retrieves Obsolesces
The small town, the The reunion
village, the main street Time, memory, the past
The hang-out, the boulevard, The secret
the soda shop, the arcade
The diary, the journal
8
Graham Harman, “The Tetrad and Phenomenology,” Explorations in Media

61. sent. So, perhaps we ought to add one more medium to those that
Facebook enhances: the tetrad itself.
Enhances Reverses into
The directory Campus life
The answering machine, the Adolescence
bulletin board High school
The yearbook, the diary
Immediacy, nowness
Retrieves Obsolesces
The small town, the The reunion
village, the main street Time, memory, the past
The hang-out, the boulevard, The secret
the soda shop, the arcade
The diary, the journal
8
Graham Harman, “The Tetrad and Phenomenology,” Explorations in Media

62. sent. So, perhaps we ought to add one more medium to those that
Facebook enhances: the tetrad itself.
Enhances Reverses into
The directory Campus life
The answering machine, the Adolescence
bulletin board High school
The yearbook, the diary
Immediacy, nowness
Retrieves Obsolesces
The small town, the The reunion
village, the main street Time, memory, the past
The hang-out, the boulevard, The secret
the soda shop, the arcade
The diary, the journal
8
Graham Harman, “The Tetrad and Phenomenology,” Explorations in Media

64. Week Two
Remediations, Retrovisions:
The history of the digital
District 9 (2009)

65. Week Three
Production: Digital cinema, CGI and the
soundtrack

66. Week Four
How to Study a Videogame

67. Week Five
Play, Leisure and Work:
The Fun Industry
Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

68. Week Six
A Radical Digital Culture?:
Doing Things With Videogames

69. Week Seven
Digitalising Worlds:
theme parks and automata
Guest lecture: Angela Ndalianis

70. Week Eight
Digital Selves:
touch, cyborgs and AI
Robocop (1987)

71. Week Nine
Thinking Through Technology:
has Google changed the way you think?
The Social Network (2010)

72. Week Ten
Digital Culture and the Gallery
Guest lecturer: Wendy Haslem
Gallery excursion

73. Week Eleven
Networked Cities and Public Space
Guest lecturer: Dale Leorke
Sleep Dealer (2008)

74. Week Twelve
The Digital Future:
Fears, Ghosts, and Mediums
Catfish (2010)

75. Themes

76. Themes
The power of media

77. Themes
The power of media
History of digital media

78. Themes
The power of media
History of digital media
Cultures of digital media

79. Assessment
Blog, 1500 words due 18
Sept - 40%
Essay, 2500 words due 5
Nov - 60%

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81. http://www.twitter.com/digmedia2012