Advanced Themes in Communication Sciences

Objectives

- To deepen knowledge in fundamental epistemological themes and areas of communication sciences;
- To become familiar with emerging and transdisciplinary issues in the field of communication sciences and current debates, improving the ability to deal with different or opposing views on the same topic;
- To be able to frame specific objects and contexts through fundamental perspective of communication sciences, developing the ability to produce a justified and argued critical framework of their own research;
- To improve the use of specific concepts in communication sciences, and the ability to carry out a conceptualization exercise in the specific topic of their investigation.

General characterization

Code

73201101

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Dima Mohammed

Hours

Weekly - 2

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Burdick, A. Drucker, J., Lunenfeld, P., Et. al. (2012), Digital Humanities. MIT Press
Bratton, B. (2016) The Stack. MIT Press
Galloway, A. R. e Thacker, E. (2007) The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Univ Minnesota Press
Groys, B. (2016) In The Flow. Verso
Hansen, M. (2015) Feed-Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media. Univ. Chicago Press
Kittler, F. (2017) Cultura e Técnica. A Filosofia dos Media de Friedrich Kittler(org. Rodrigues e Cruz), Lisboa: UnYleYa
Krauss, R. (2014) Under the Blue Cup. MIT Press
Sybille, K. (2015) Medium, Messenger, Transmission. Amsterdam Univ. Press
Latour, B. e Weibel, P. (2005). Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. MIT Press/ZKM
Manovich, L. (2013) Software Takes Command. Bloomsbury
Manovich, L. (2020) Cultural Analytics. MIT Press
Stiegler, B. (2019) The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism. Polity Press Strate, L. (2017) Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition. Int. Acad. Pub

Teaching method

This curricular unit will count with the participation of more than one doctorate teacher or researcher, according to its modular structure, under the coordination of the responsible teacher. The methodology will be both expository and of problematization and It will encourage students to engage in the discussion of the topics of the course. This methodology can be complemented by the use of flipped classroom and blended learning methodologies.

Evaluation method

Evaluation Methodologies - Participation in the seminar. Discussion of the pre-proposal (November-December). Quality of the written proposal (10 pages; deadline: end of December)(100%)

Subject matter

1. Media Theory,
Post-mediality and the Humanities
Media Theory and its relevance for the Humanities and modern critical thinking.
The post
-media condition, digital studies and their impact on the Humanities of
the XXI century.
2. The New Critique of the Common: Ecology, Politics and Communication
Societal and political challenges of globalisation, networks and cyberspace:
planetarization of technique, sustainability, control and activisms.
3. The new Symbolic Machine: Code, Calculation and Algorithms.
Language in the age of digitality: computing, programming and datification.
Implications for a post
-human notion of cognition and a new stage of automation.
4. Communication, Hiperindustrializatio of Cultural and the Arts Tensions and injunctions between technique, media and contemporary arts: cultural technologies, the hyperindustrialization of aesthetics and the new cultural analytics.

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: