PCSS589 GLOBALISATION, EDUCATION & NEW MEDIA CULTURES – Brief Course Information This online course is updated each year. The course follows the usual teaching semester at University of Waikato & will be available to enrolled students from the beginning of the semester. BOOK Resources for the course Several new books examine various aspects of New Media. Many of these authors have blogs & comment on their work on YouTube. Many are in the University library or available at Bennett’s Bookshop on campus -­‐ some have kindle versions available. This list gives you something of the flavour of the course. Texts Benkler, Y. (2007) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. Yale University Press For free download, go to the pdf: http://www.benkler.org/Benkler_Wealth_Of_Networks.pdf Hammer, R. & Kellner, D. (eds.) (2009). Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches. New York: Peter Lang Publishing Hayles, N.K. (2012) How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis. University Of Chicago Press Jenkins, H, Ford, S, Green, J. (2013) Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop). New York: NYU Press. Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: NYU Press. Highly Recommended Balsamo, A. (1995) Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women. Duke University Press. Balsamo, A. (2011) Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work. Duke University Press. Bogost, I. (2011) How to Do Things with Videogames (Electronic Mediations). Univ of Minnesota Press. Castells. M. (2012) Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. Polity. Kowalski, R.M., Limber, S.P., & Agaston, P.W. (2012) Cyberbullying: Bullying in the Digital Age. Wiley-­‐Blackwell. Lessig, L. (2004) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. Penguin. Lessig, L. (2008) Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Penguin. Mackinnon, R. (2012) Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom. Basic Books. Shariff, S. (2008). Cyber-­‐bullying: Issues and solutions for the school, the classroom, and the home. Abington, UK: Routledge 1 Shirky, C. (2009 ) Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Penguin. van Dijck, J. (2013) The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media. Oxford University Press, USA COURSE INFORMATION: MOODLE IS REQUIRED Check each week for additional resources; news forums & the weekly discussion forum (10% of your marks). For help in learning how to use Moodle, see http://elearn.waikato.ac.nz/ & do the tutorials as suggested. It only takes about 15-­‐ 20 minutes to familiarise yourself with Moodle by browsing the Moodle Support course and the Moodle Help Files. The Student Moodle Orientation Video demonstrates how to access Moodle, where to find help and how to use the basic Moodle tools, the video will begin playing automatically. ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS PAPER Students must complete ALL pieces of assessment for this paper in order to pass. 1. Class participation is essential in this online course, so students are expected to engage regularly in the written Moodle Weekly Discussion Forums, which will contribute to 10% of your final mark. These written Moodle Weekly Discussion Forums provide an important forum of peer-­‐learning and collegiality in the online environment, where post-­‐graduates students are expected to be self-­‐directed. Nevertheless I will read the forum comments and at times I will comment as appropriate. Where possible, we will use web-­‐conferencing (Adobe Connect which is available via Moodle) so students can discuss ideas with each other in set time slots on different days so as to enable as many people as possible to join in. It is desirable that students participate in these as often as possible, but will not be mandatory. This is still an experimental aspect of the course. 2. In addition all students will complete 2 written assignments. Details for each will be in files on Moodle First, short assignment # 1 30% Final Assignment # 2 60% This assignment is completed in 2 parts – first an abstract, earlier in the course, which is commented on by Prof Besley, then the final paper is submitted at the end of the course. Assignments are emailed to Prof Besley as email attachments. 2 PCSS589 COURSE CALENDAR Week 1. Course Begins -­‐ Introduction & Thinking Critically about New Media & Education Week 2: Print vs Visual Media -­‐ Study of TV in our Culture Week 3: Theorising New Media Week 4: Media Theory and Criticism Week 5: Knowledge Production via New Media Week 6. New Media and Society -­‐ The New Paradigm of Social Production MID-­‐SEMESTER 2 week Teaching Recess Week 7: Persuasion & Propaganda -­‐ The Manufacture of Consent Week 8: Power & Surveillance: New Media and Democracy Week 9: Youth and New Media 1 Week 10. Youth and New Media 2 Week 11: Risky Digital Behaviours Week 12: Media and Minorities 3