S. Theorie und Ästhetik: Vernetzte Alltagsmedien in Plattform-Ökonomien
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian TedjasukmanaShortname: S Theorie & Ästhetik
Course No.: 05.155.16_530
Course Type: Seminar
Requirements / organisational issues
Active and regular participation in all tasks, especially intensive text reading, argumentation and discussion, development and presentation of a group project, and submission of an academic term paper is required.Recommended reading list
Distelmeyer, Jan (2021) Kritik der Digitalität. Wiesbaden: Springer.Van Dijck, José/Poell, Thomas/de Waal, Martijn (2018) The Platform Society. Oxford: Scholarship Online.
Contents
Whether social networks, AR/VR glasses, news feeds, video chats, voice assistants or wearables—never have digitally networked media been so strongly integrated into one’s everyday life. These media must prove themselves in what is now the common post-digital everyday life. Mediated via global platform corporations, everyday media perform familiar, useful functions and at the same time change existing everyday cultures significantly. For example, maps and phones are evolving through processes of convergence, datafication, commodification, and selection into products such as Google Maps and Google Pixel (cf. van Dijck, Poell, de Waal 2018). Such change is associated with far-reaching technical and cultural innovations, but it is also accompanied by social, political, and economic frictions.The course is dedicated to this gradual as well as radical change via case analyses, historical contextualization, media theories, and practical everyday reflections. On the one hand, we look at technical media from the perspective of their use in everyday life and critically examine them in the discursive formations of “digitalization” (Distelmeyer 2021)
Additional information
ObjectiveThe goal of this undergraduate seminar is to provide a media-critical and reflexive understanding of the functionalities as well as the cultural and social meanings of digitally networked everyday media in platform economies through the development of a seminar project.
Method
The seminar combines media ethnographic and film analytical methods with practical reflections on one’s own media use. Self-selected group projects are to be developed and presented at the end of the lecture period.
Dates
| Date (Day of the week) | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 10/26/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/02/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/09/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/16/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/23/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 11/30/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 12/07/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 211 Hörsaal 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 12/14/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 12/21/2023 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/11/2024 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/18/2024 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 01/25/2024 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |
| 02/01/2024 (Thursday) | 12:15 - 13:45 | 00 113 Seminarraum 9181 - Medienhaus |