Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Start > Leuphana Bachelor (B.A./B.Eng./B.Sc./LL.B.) -> Major Digital Media -> Practical Experience in Digital Media II

Lehrveranstaltungen

Building Anonymity (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Götz Bachmann, Tara Karpinski, Julien McHardy

Inhalt: Join our Amsterdam-based designer Tara Karpinski and designer and sociologist Albert Anonymous, who will help you build both artistic and technical projects that highlight the issues around online anonymity and privacy. When we rely on networked information and data infrastructure, how do information, ownership, transparency, privacy and anonymity interconnect? What are the possibilities that anonymity affords and what are the dangers it implies? During this course, we will employ design research grounded in theory to probe challenge and rethink anonymity – addressing the powerful digitally mediated forces that govern our practices. Using a ‘research through making’ approach we will realise a series of design interventions, that delve deep into contemporary regimes of anonymity. As part of this process, students will develop prototypes, test and iteratively refine them, under real life conditions.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Practical Experience in Digital Media II

Multimedia Journalism (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Magdalena Taube

Inhalt: The course will give students the opportunity to create their own digital storytelling projects. It is divided into three phases: brainstorming and concept phase, learning from experts and practical implentation. This means students will get the chance to develop their own ideas, engage in an exchange with experts from the field of digital technologies and create their own multimedia storytelling projects. The practical phase of the seminar will give the students a chance to get acquainted with the following digital tools: EtherPad (for secure collaborative text work), Timeline JS (for creating digital timelines), PiktoChart (a simple way of data visualisation) and Wordpress (for digital publishing). Furthermore, the students will produce their own long form multimedia project by the end of the term and also present this project to the whole group. An example for such a web story is the project “Are we up for anonymity?” (see URL http://URL:http://berlinergazette.de/are-we-up-for-anonymity/?p=1) which was created by a group of students at a workshop Magdalena Taube gave. This web story covers a complex issue in the digital sphere – the question of anonymity – and tries to provide different perspectives on that matter. It contains text passages as well as an explanatory videos, data visualizations and audio interviews. It will be one of the aims of the course for the students to create a similar story on an issue or question they choose themselves.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Practical Experience in Digital Media II