Course Schedule

Course Schedule

Start > Leuphana Bachelor (B.A./B.Eng./B.Sc./LL.B.) -> Major Digital Media -> Media Cultures

Lehrveranstaltungen

Digital Game Studies (Seminar)

Inhalt: In the past two decades, digital games have evolved from a rather marginal phenomenon to a cultural practice that has permeated all areas of society. Building on the first pioneering works of computer game research in media and cultural studies (Pias, Wolf, etc.) at the turn of the millennium, academic research on computer and video games has also become professionalized in recent years and established itself as an academic discipline under the name Computer Game Studies (CGS).   As a young research field, CGS is characterized by its highly interdisciplinary and heterogeneous perspective; on the other hand, its representatives are still busy defining the boundaries of their own discipline, canonizing its basic theoretical approaches, and developing new research perspectives. Building on the classical approaches of a narratological, ludological, or media-technological engagement with computer games, exciting new research questions have emerged in recent years. These include formal-aesthetic questions about space, perspective, or sound in computer games, as well as broader aspects such as the representation of gender in computer games, history in games, games as political media etc.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures

Digital Urbanism (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Niloufar Vadiati

Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 14:00 - 17:30 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | HMS 139
Einzeltermin | Sa, 18.01.2025, 10:00 - Sa, 18.01.2025, 13:30 | HMS 231/232

Inhalt: How data is becoming an essential component, algorithm a new emerging logic, AI a new agency and platform a new infrastructure in cities? How digital technology is being integrated into different urban practices: from Smart Cities by municipalities, Platform Urbanism by tech companies, to Urban Digital Sovereignty by civil organisations.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures

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.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major Digital Media - Media Cultures