Faculty of Political Sciences University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska,
Department of Philosophy and Sociology of Politics
Course Title: New Media and Politics (nonobligatory course for International Relations students)
Number of contact hours: 30
Course duration: semester
Lecturer: Piotr Celiński (Ph.D), see more at: www.umcs.lublin.pl/pracownicy.php?id=15986
e-mail: piotr.celinski@umcs.pl
Program
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1. Culture, Techné and politics – introduction to the course
2. Language of new media – defining digitality and networks
L. Manovich, Language of new media, 2001. Online: www.manovich.net/LNM/Manovich.pdf
A. Turing, Intelligent Machinery, 1948. Online: www.alanturing.net/intelligent_machinery/
F. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Stanford: Stanford University Press 1999, s. 1-2. Online: hydra.humanities.uci.edu/kittler/intro.html
3. Politics of Code: mathematics + mechanics + electricity
F. Kittler, Code, [w:] Software Studies. A Lexicon, red. M. Fuller, Cambridge: MIT Press 2008, s. 40-47.
M. Fuller, Behind the Blip: Software as Culture. Online: www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas_articles/pdf/fuller_sw_as_culture.pdf
'Code', University of Chicago 'Theories of Media: Keywords Glossary' csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/code.htm
4. Data base – digital environment of culture
www.knowledgecartography.org/,
L. Manovich, Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections, 2011. Online: www.manovich.net/DOCS/media_visualization.2011.pdf
5. Interface
www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/03/operating-system-interface-design-between-1981-2009/
www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/download/434/462
6. Software
L. Manovich, Software takes command, 2008. softwarestudies.com/softbook/manovich_softbook_11_20_2008.pdf
F. Kittler, There is no Software, „CTheory” 10/18/1995; www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=74
7. Remix and New laws of culture
www.springerlink.com/content/r7r28443320k6012/
8. DIY – social politics of media
H. Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, 1993. Online: www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html
9. CTRL_SPACE – how to control society with new technologies
R. Clarke, Information Technology and Dataveillance, „Communications of the ACM” 31(5) 1988, s. 498–512. Online: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~se4921/PDF/CACM/p498-clarke.pdf
Ch. Fuchs, New Media, Web 2.0 and Surveillance, "Sociology Compass" 5/2 (2011), s. 134–147. Online: http://fuchs.uti.at/wp-content/uploads/Web20Surveillance.pdf
10. Digital arts and its politics
P. Weibel, Web 2.0 and the Museum, [w:] Imagery in the 21st Century, red. O. Grau, T. Veigl, The MIT Press: Cambridge 2011, s. 235-243. Online: www.globalartmuseum.de/site/conf_lecture11
Ars Electronica Archive Online: www.aec.at/festival/en/archiv/
Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Archive Online: www.zkm.de
11. Biomedia and bioresistance
Haraway D., A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late
Twentieth Century, [w:] Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York;
1991, s.149-181. www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.htmlwww.transhumanism.org/resources/faq.html
J. Borland, Transcending the Human, DIY Style, „Wired” 12.30.2010. Online: www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/12/transcending-the-human-diy-style/
12. Wrap-Up
Individual presentations of final projects.
Each student will develop a final project that critically examines an aspect of digital media of
own choice.
Course Description:
This course studies key concepts and interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to the new media ontologies. Students will learn to critically investigate the provenance of the claims of new media theories, as well as to confront the claims made by new media theorists with the practices and uses of new media, its political genotype and forces trying to manipulate it. We will try to answer questions like: what are new media and what are their political and international environments? How do they requires us to rethink cultural, social and political paradigms and to develop new ones? How digital technologies reshape and redefine our relations with society, culture and with others?
Basic readings:
Bolter J. D., Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2001.
Castells M., The rise of the network society, Oxford 1996.
Davis M., The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Touring, W. W. Norton and Company 2000.
Dijk, van, J., The network society: Social aspects of new media, London 1999.
The New Media Reader, red. N. Wardrip-Fruin, N. Montfort, MIT 2003.