Core Topic: Media & Digital Cultures

What it is about

You will learn central terms and debates on digital technologies and their effects on society and culture. You can situate the technical, historical and political contexts and critically assess the cultural as well as normative dimensions of digital transformations.

What you will be able to do

• Familiarity with basic concepts and the current state of research on socio-technical transformations
• Assessment of cultural, political and normative dimensions of digital processes
• Knowledge of fundamental concepts and models for the construction of digital technologies
• Analysis of concepts, models and evaluation practices of digital media
• Investigation of the effects of digital technologies in concrete fields of application
• Formulation of adequate research questions in the area of Media Studies and Digital Cultures

What the module consists of

• Seminar/SitzungenProvision of basic knowledge through texts, discussions and case analyses
• PräsentationenStructure and defend one’s own arguments and results in academic discussion

Teaching method

• Textarbeit / LektüreAcquisition of basic knowledge on key concepts, debates and the state of research
• KlassendiskussionenTraining in analysis, evaluation and discussion of cultural, political and normative aspects
• FallstudienanalyseApplication of concepts to concrete examples from different areas
• Präsentation eigener ArbeitenTraining of argumentative structure and defense of scientific positions