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Presentation
Presentation
This class contributes to the development of investigation skills and critical analysis skills, while helping the student to understand the presuppositions that govern technologies currently available to any user. It equally promotes the student¿s conceptual and creative development, beyond providing technical knowledge for the creation of digital contents. In this way, it equips the student with skills for exercising their communication power in the contemporary society.
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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
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT24-2590
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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
- Signifier and meaning
- Icon, index, symbol
- Mappings between data & representation according to W. Gaver: symbolic, metaphoric, nomic
- Perception
- Interaction with ubiquitous vs. idiosyncratic interfaces
- Continuities and discontinuities related with intensity and attention
- Types of audio-visual relationships & thei perceptual effects
- Creation of webpages with the works developed in this class
- Content Management Systems (Wordpress and Wix)
- How to transform any webpage into a template / content modification in HTML (with Brackets)
- Some principles that govern Google¿s indexing and ranking
- Critical analysis of multimedia objects
- Investigation of contemporary socio-cultural issues
- Notions of Open Source, Shareware and Creative Commons
- Sound editing (with Reaper or Audacity) and image editing (with Gimp or Photoshop)
- Creative project illustrating the investigation (graphic & sonic montages including internal and external links)
- Signifier and meaning
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Objectives
Objectives
- To develop autonomy in research and learning
- To develop the ability of contextualizing multimedia objects (item, user/ consumer/ addressee and production)
- To develop critical thinking and conceptual skills based on research of contemporary issues
- To develop communication skills through the creation of URLs including text, image, sound and video
- To develop creative methods to free imagination, while discerning connections between apparently unrelated issues
- To acquire basic skills of sound and image editing, while developing a sensibility for idiosyncratic composition
- To learn the basic principles of attention dynamics
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Teaching methodologies and assessment
Teaching methodologies and assessment
At the beginning of the semester, the students are provided with a document including detailed briefings, teaching and evaluation methodologies, as well as links to digital tools and support materials.
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References
References
Media Text Hackteam (2018). Media Text Book 101. https://opentextbc.ca/mediastudies101
Bridle, James (2019). New Dark Age : Technology and the End of the Future. Verso Books, London.
TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNMvYxJZgsUElectronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/
Sá, Adriana & Tanaka, Atau (2019). The Variables of Spatial Presence: a parametric model. Proceedings of xCoAx.
https://2019.xcoax.org/pdf/xCoAx2019-Sa.pdfGaver, W. W. (1986). Auditory Icons: Using Sound in Computer Interfaces. Human-computer Interaction 2 , 167¿177
http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/gaver_auditory_icons_using_sound_in_computer_interfaces.pdf
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
