FF:TIM_BK_005 Cyberculture - Course Information
TIM_BK_005 Cyberculture
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites
- Ability to read texts in English.
- 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-INME_) (2)
- Theory of Interactive Media (programme FF, B-OT)
- Course objectives
- The main objective is to deliver an introduction to new media studies, to teach the students about technological and socio-cultural history of ICT and to sum up the early academic discussion on the social and cultural aspects of ICT.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course student will be acquainted with:
- Cultural history of computer and network technologies from 1960s to 1990s.
- Main concepts of cyberculture (Lévy, Morse, Manovich, Escobar, Hakken).
- The main areas of the literary and social science reflection of new media (cyberpunk, embodiment and identity, community and public, power and ideology, inequality and technologies) and related meritorious works (Gibson, Stephenson, Harraway, Rheingold, Barlow, Negroponte, Bey, Kroker and Weinstein et al.). - 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.
- Teaching methods
- Lecture
- Assessment methods
- Written test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 80 hodin výuky/semestr.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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