Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Start > Masterprogramm Cultural Studies: Culture and Organization (M.A.) -> Kernbereich -> Digital Media and Social Organization

Lehrveranstaltungen

Media Technologies of Organization (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Armin Beverungen, Claus Pias

Inhalt: The class brings together students from the MA "Media and Digital Cultures" and the MA "Culture and Organization" and is focused on the organizational powers of media technologies. ‘Media organize’, as the architectural theorist Reinhold Martin put it, and this is particularly true for digital media, according to the media theorist John Durham Peters. The class thus focuses on the way media organize, i.e. on their organizational capacities, on the kinds of organizational forms and processes associated with particular media technologies, as well as on the way these media technologies themselves are organized. The course is broadly split into three parts: in a first part the class explores histories of media technologies of organization; in a second part the class explores current instantiations of media technologies of organization; and in a third part students embark on a group exercise in which they research particular media technologies and their associated organizational forms and processes. The last part of the class culminates in a student conference in which students in groups present their findings.