FF:IMK05 Cyberculture - Course Information
IMK05 Cyberculture
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Slavík (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Jana Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Fri 20. 9. 17:00–18:40 N21, Fri 25. 10. 17:00–18:40 N21, Fri 22. 11. 17:00–18:40 N21, Fri 6. 12. 17:00–18:40 N21
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 100 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/100, only registered: 0/100, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/100 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-OT) (2)
- Course objectives
- Main objectives are to introduce to new media studies and to learn about technological and socio-cultural history of ICT, to sum up the early academic discussion on the social and cultural aspects of ICT.
- Syllabus
- Synthetic Pleasures – screening of a document about the „new frontier“
- Language of cybernetics as a cultural power
- Society / Culure / Technology
- Marshall McLuhan's technodeterminism
- Concepts of cyberculture
- Origins and development of ICT and origins of technological subcultures; 1940s-1990s
- Proliferation of ICT in 1980s and 1990s - technopopcultuer - new technologies as a part of cultural and social mainstream
- Cybercultura discourses and their impacts
- Resume of key concepts
- Literature
- MACEK, Jakub. Raná kyberkultura. Edited by David Kořínek. Brno, 2004, 87 l. URL info
- MACEK, Jakub. Tělesnost a kyberkultura (Embodiment and Cyberculture). Host - Revue pro média 05. Brno: Spolek přátel pro vydávání Hosta, 2003, No 5, p. 2-9, 10 pp. ISSN 1211-9938. Plný text článku. info
- LÉVY, Pierre P. Kyberkultura : zpráva pro Radu Evropy v rámci projektu "Nové technologie: kulturní spolupráce a komunikace". Translated by Martin Kašpar - Anna Pravdová. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova, 2000, 229 s. ISBN 8024601095. info
- MCLUHAN, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy : the making of typographic man. New York: New American Library, 1969, 349 s. info
- Assessment methods
- Position papers reviewing literature, written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hodin výuka, 8 hodin konzultace.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2019, recent)
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