IM005 Cyberculture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lukáš Slavík (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.
Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Jitka Leflíková
Supplier department: Department of Musicology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 12:00–13:40 N41
Prerequisites (in Czech)
Účast v kurzu Kyberkultura předpokládá schopnost samostatné četby v anglickém jazyce.
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
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.
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
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Lecture. Position papers reviewing literature, written exam (exact number of question is unknown yet since I have not prepared the test yet; usually part of them are multiple-choice, some of them are open... but since the lecture is being delivered in Czech, I found meaningless to be that accurate here, in the EN annotation).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2018, recent)
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