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Presentation
Presentation
Ciências da Comunicação
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Bachelor | Semestral | 5
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
2 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT24-1421
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable
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Professional Internship
Professional Internship
Não
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Genealogy of media concept: meaning and object of a media theory. Technical devices and its discourse: form antiquity to present day.
Media, discourse, reality: media and power; media and suspicion; media and simulacra; remediation.
The Canadian School of Media: Harold A. Innis: time and space; Eric A. Havelock: the Greek inheritance; Marshall McLuhan: the extensions of body.
Marxist media critique: Walter Benjamin: media and art; Günther Anders: world in images; Hans Magnus Enzensberger: media and mobilization.
Contemporary Media Theory: Niklas Luhmann: medium and form; Jean Baudrillard: the decline of the real; Paul Virilio: excess and velocity; Boris Groys: the submedial; Friedrich Kittler: the post-human; Peter Sloterdijk: «actio in distans».
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Objectives
Objectives
a) distinguish medium (media) and technology;
b) Describe technically mediated experience;
c) adapt knowledge into an argumentative and critical judgement to current situation;
d) identify the main paradigms in thinking mediation;
e) to produce a critical judgment about media in a creative context;
f) recognize how media shapes culture;
g) know the genealogy of the media and how an theory of the media is possible;
h) recognize the 'media reality’;
i) to identify as differences and antitheses between different theoretical positions;
j) have a critical position on the history of the media;
k) be acquainted about the relations between the media and society;
l) determine the impact of the media on the arts and aesthetics;
m) be able to identify political strategies made possible by media;
n) identify research branches in media studies.
o) be able to build a systematic argumentative discourse on the relationships between culture, art, media and reality.
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
Oral exposal class; hermeneutics and textual heuristics; public discussion of arguments; visual support material
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References
References
Eric A. Havelock, A musa aprende a escrever. Reflexões sobre a oralidade e a literacia da antiguidade até ao presente. Lisboa, Gradiva, 1996.
Friedrich A. Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Günther Anders, La obsolescencia del hombre. Sobre el alma en la época de la segunda revolución industrial (Vol I). Valencia: Pre-Textos, 2011.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger, «Constituents of a Theory of Media». In Timothy Druckrey (ed.), Electronic Culture. New York: Aperture, 1996.
Harold A. Innis, The Bias of Communication. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2006.
Jean Baudrillard, O crime perfeito. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água. 1996.
McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media. London/New York: Routledge, 2001.
Paul Virilio, Esthétique de la disparition. Paris: Galilée, 1989.
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No