2007 Arrives · Monday January 22, 2007
Here’s to spending the first two weeks of 2007 writing two 6000 word essays and turning them both in 5 minutes before the 2pm January 19th deadline.
Here’s to friends, old and new.
Here’s to secret (and not-so-secret) covered skateparks in London.
Here’s to Ireland.
Here’s to uncovering fascinating local histories.
Here’s to new projects.
Here’s to excellent localish beer.
Here’s to an actually fun club night in London.
Here’s to Achievement.
Here’s to spontaneously buying tickets to a music festival in a small Scottish fishing town (sound familiar?) in mid April.
Here’s to courses like this:
Media Audiences and Media Geographies
The course will review a range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of media audiences and on the role of the media in constructing the post-modern geography of our contemporary World.
The first section of the course takes a macro perspective and offers a brief review of contemporary models and approaches to the study of media audiences, media effects, media powers and patterns of cultural consumption.
The second section of the course addresses questions concerning the specificity of different media and their micro-contexts and conditions of consumption, with a particular focus on the domestic context of consumption of broadcasting , and the significance of micro-studies of specific instances of the household uses of television and other communications and information technologies.
The third section of the course then moves back from micro to macro considerations, to examine the role of communications media in the constructing the geography of our post-modern electronic landscapes. This section will address a range of issues focusing on processes of identity and boundary construction (at different geographical scales) and the associated issues of mobility and hybridity, within the broader context of processes of globalisation. Here we will also address the role of the media in articulating the private and public spheres, in the construction of both national and transnational identities and senses of ‘home’ and ‘homeland’ in an era of time-space compression.
and, uh, this:
Screen Cultures
Screens are now a dominant presence and interface in culture in a number of suggestive ways. First, screens are no longer defined by their institutional location (the cinema, the office) but are ubiquitous. Public space is characterised by screens of information, advertising and surveillance that affect the ways in which we perceive, use and move through spaces. Second, the spectacular scale of the cinematic screen is giving way to micro screens, the attributes of a personalised and mobile life-style. Third, the discrete identity of media objects is increasingly lost to a convergence of forms within the computer terminal. This course explores our relationship to these transformations, the ways in which our bodies are re-positioned by screens, our modes of expression and communication are affected, and our experience of time and space is reworked. These issues are examined through the work of Marc Auge and his concept of non-place, Paul Virilio’s theories of an accidental culture of immediacy and speed, and Lev Manovich’s idea of the computer screen as a layered interface which we access as randomly as we do memories. The course requires students to critically reflect on their own relationship to screen cultures, relationships that may be productive, poetic and arbitrary as much as they are disciplined, rationalised and controlled.
This course requires you to use London as a research site, to visit galleries, museums and archives. It also encourages you to engage in the use of the internet to explore particular screen
cultures. Films referred to in sessions will be on the reserve desk for your use during the term.
Here’s to not feeling guilty about only updating your blog once or twice a month.
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