Course Schedule
Veranstaltungen von Dr. Vera Tollmann
Lehrveranstaltungen
Research Methods for Digital Media Studies - Stream A (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Stephan Scheel, Vera Tollmann
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 09:45 - 13:15 | 04.12.2024 - 31.01.2025 | HMS 139
Inhalt: Building on Leuphana Semester’s foregoing general introduction into research methods, this course offers further insights into those methods that are crucial to studying digital media. In each session of the seminar, we will focus on one method (cf. course plan). There will be micro-exercises allowing students to gain an understanding of a method via the experience of performing it. Further, for each method we will read and discuss exemplary research papers.
Research Methods for Digital Media Studies - Stream B (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Stephan Scheel, Vera Tollmann
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 14:00 - 17:30 | 04.12.2024 - 31.01.2025 | HMS 139
Inhalt: Building on Leuphana Semester’s foregoing general introduction into research methods, this course offers further insights into those methods that are crucial to studying digital media. In each session of the seminar, we will focus on one method (cf. course plan). There will be micro-exercises allowing students to gain an understanding of a method via the experience of performing it. Further, for each method we will read and discuss exemplary research papers.
Navigating Everyday Life: An Introduction to Social Media Studies (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Vera Tollmann
Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 09:45 - 13:15 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | HMS 139
Inhalt: Social media content can be emancipatory or manipulative. Social media consumption and practices of real-life social interaction are being transformed by algorithmic recommendation systems. These algorithmic cultures (Seyfert, Roberge) influence the way we read, write, photograph and reflect on contemporary culture. Neologisms such as "screen apnea", "rage farming", "millennial pause", "green noise" or "de-influencing" show how social media (and digital media in general) shape our perception and analysis of contemporary cultural practices. "Digital dualism" (Jurgenson) is replaced by being online, our digital and real lives are not separate, but digital culture is embodied and material. The guiding questions of this seminar will be How does social media programme sociality? How can platforms become hostile, "anti-social" media environments for extremist voices? While at the same time serving as search engines and entertainment channels? We will look at the affordances of social media such as spreadability and searchability (Boyd), referentiality, communality and algorithmicity (Stalder) and their implications. This seminar focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of social media, people's everyday use of networked content, the study of hashtags, memes and influencers, and related media genres such as advertising, film, gaming and reality TV, learning concepts such as intermediality, intertextuality or staged authenticity.