Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in multilingual communication (120 ECTS) (Digital media education) | 5 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Description of the teaching unit:
This teaching unit addresses the theoretical elements and applications of media archaeology as a method of investigating media objects, clarifying its relevance to the understanding of contemporary digital media.
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is (Digital) Media Archaeology?
PART 1 : Benchmarks. Mapping (Digital) Media Archaeology: Pieces of an intellectual background
PART 2: Time and Materiality. The materiality of digital media, and its implications for cultural production. The temporality of digital media: questions of archive and obsolescence. Art and Zombie Media
PART 3: Senses. Haptic Vision and Embodiment: New Film Theory, Digital Cinema and Media Archaeology of the Senses - Archaeology of the Screen.
Conclusion
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this teaching unit, the student will be able...
- to explain what the media-archaeology approach consists of, what its intellectual sources are and how it enables us to develop a critical understanding of digital media;
- to define the theoretical notions covered in the teaching unit (eg. mediarchy, analog vs. digital; planned obsolescence, etc.) and to illustrate them by examples that could be drawn within the case studies encountered in class;
- to analyze a digital cultural object from a media-archaeological perspective.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
oral lectures with note-taking by the student; explanation and discussion of texts from a reading portfolio
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
face-to-face (subject to adaptations imposed by the sanitary context)
Recommended or required readings
Reading portfolio (the texts are available on eCampus)
Introduction
- Citton, Yves. 2019. "8. Archeologizing Mediarchy". In Mediarchy. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 145-156.
- Kittler, Friedrich A. (1986) 1999. "Introduction" in Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford university press.
- Adam, Isabelle. 2016. « What Would McLuhan Say about the Smartphone? Applying McLuhan's Tetrad to the Smartphone » 2 (1): 3. https://doi.org/10.5334/glo.9.
- Citton, Yves. 2019. "9. Stratifying Mediarchy". In Mediarchy. John Wiley & Sons, pp.161-174;
- Citton, Yves. 2019. "12. Digitizing mediarchy"; "13. Inhabiting Mediarchy". In Mediarchy. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 223-259.
- De Kosnik, Abigail. 2016. « Memory Machine Myth: The Memex, Media Archaeology, and Repertoires of Archiving ». In Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, 41-61. MIT Press.
- Hertz, Garnet, and Jussi Parikka. 2012. « Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art Method ». Leonardo 45 (5): 424-30.
- Strauven, Wanda. 2013. « Chap 2. Media Archaeology: Where Film History, Media Art, and New Media (Can) Meet ». In Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art, Vinzenz Hediger, Barbara Le Maître, and Julia Noordegraaf (eds), 59-79. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Huhtamo, Erkki. 2016. « The Four Practices? Challenges for an Archaeology of the Screen ». In Screens, édité par Dominique Chateau et José Moure, 6:116-24. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions )
Additional information:
Written examination, open questions (instructions and weighting specified) designed to assess the achievement of pre-defined learning objectives (knowledge of the concepts covered in the course, ability to provide relevant illustrations, etc.).
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Contacts
Ingrid.Mayeur@uliege.be