The course aims to provide students with some key knowledge with respect to the evolution of media in the contemporary landscape in relation to the multiple evolutions introduced by digital and its developments. We will focus mainly on visual media, whose techniques and languages will be taken into consideration. Upon completion of the course, female and male students will be able to: - Analyzing the contemporary media landscape - Master the main concepts related to it (convergence, remediation, crossmediality, hypermediality, postmediality, transmediality, etc) - Know the innovations introduced by digital revolutions - Knowing digital media languages - Acquire experiential practical skills in using certain media
Course Prerequisites
There are no specific prerequisites.
Teaching Methods
The course includes classroom lectures and practical-experiential workshops with respect to some of the digital media mentioned, with the aim of analyzing some specific case studies together. In particular, the following methods will be used: - Classroom lessons with support for video materials and synthesis power points. - Guided analysis of emblematic case studies - Experiential workshops on some digital media analyzed in class
Assessment Methods
The exam will be conducted through an oral interview on the topics of the lessons, the manual, and the materials provided during the course, for both attending and non-attending students. During the oral exam, students must demonstrate their knowledge of the course content and their ability to navigate the topics and issues discussed in class. For the students attending, it will be possible to create a paper based on some of the experiences gained during the course, to be presented for the oral exam.
Texts
Attending students: - R. Eugeni, La condizione postmediale. Media, linguaggi e narrazioni, Scholé, 2022. - materiali didattici forniti dalla docente durante lo svolgimento del corso.
Non-attending students: - R. Eugeni, La condizione postmediale. Media, linguaggi e narrazioni, Scholé, 2022. - J. David Bolter e R. Grusin, Remediation. Competizione e integrazione tra media vecchi e nuovi, Guerini e Associati, Milano, 2003. - H. Jenkins, Cultura convergente, Apogeo Education, Milano, 2014.
Erasmus students are required to agree on the program with the teacher.
Contents
Starting from the definition of medium, and its historical evolution, the course aims to explore the relationship between new media and traditional ones, passing through some fundamental junctions of contemporary culture such as the concept of “convergence” or that of “remediation”. Starting from these fundamental notions, we will focus in particular on the revolutions introduced by digital, exploring its languages and characteristics through some examples taken from the visual world (cinema, social media, virtual reality, augmented reality, metaverse, etc.), which will be explored in depth during the lessons. In this direction, the critical study of the contemporary media landscape will be urged, with special attention to the interaction between language and artistic forms.
