Culture, Media and Research

2026/2027

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

9

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Институт медиа

Статус:

Курс обязательный

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 2-4 модуль

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course Culture, Media and Research trains students to work with cultural-studies and ethnographic perspectives for studying contemporary media and digital cultures. Across three modules it moves from the analysis of media and data cultures (transgression, curation, protest, attention, cuteness), through a module on materiality, machine vision, monsters and immortality, to a module on reception and audience studies, from encoding/decoding to the datafication of audiences. Students are expected to develop their own written or visual research projects and to participate actively by bringing their own examples and case studies.

Learning Objectives

• To offer students a comprehensive toolkit of concepts and perspectives around contemporary platform cultures
• To train students in critical analytical thinking about contemporary media cultures
• To train students to be theoretically minded and to lead their independent research projects
• To train students to think about the interrelationships between cultural practice and media contexts

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Analyzes cultural practice in tandem with the overlapping political, technological and economic contexts in which it occurs.
• Conducts research on practices, users, publics and audiences
• Develops critical, reflexive and analytical thinking with respect to contemporary media and cultural politics.
• Examines online campaigns critically.
• Discusses contemporary media phenomena in a theoretically informed way.
• Collaborates and thinks collectively with peers

Course Contents

• Media Cultures (Panos Kompatsiaris)
• Posthumanism and its Discontents (Panos Kompatsiaris)
• Reception and Audience Studies (Ioanna Ferra)

Assessment Elements

• Seminar tasks / homework
• Participation
• Attendance
• Final task: presentation or essay

Interim Assessment

• 2026/2027 2nd module
  0.4 * Final task: presentation or essay + 0.3 * Seminar tasks / homework + 0.15 * Attendance + 0.15 * Participation
• 2026/2027 3rd module
  0.15 * Attendance + 0.3 * Seminar tasks / homework + 0.15 * Participation + 0.4 * Final task: presentation or essay
• 2026/2027 4th module
  0.4 * Final task: presentation or essay + 0.15 * Attendance + 0.3 * Seminar tasks / homework + 0.15 * Participation

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Cultural theory and popular culture : an introduction, Storey, J., 2018
• Digital ethnography : anthropology, narrative, and new media, Underberg, N. M., 2014

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Subcultures. Vol.1: Subcultural histories, , 2007
• Subcultures. Vol.2: Chicago, Birmingham, scenes and communities, , 2007
• Subcultures. Vol.3: Subcultures and music, , 2007
• Subcultures. Vol.4: Sexed subjects, virtual communities, neo-tribes, , 2007
• Vibrant matter : a political ecology of things, Bennett, J., 2010

Authors

• Kompatsiaris Panaiotis