Class Digital Communication Laboratory

This curricular unit aims at preparing students to think, plan, organize and produce multidisciplinary multimedia communication projects. The intention is to prepare them to face current and future challenges faced in communication, regarding new and innovative media languages and tools that can be used on storytelling.
Students will also be challenged to demonstrate active participation in the planning and development of the team work projects.

- Project management
- Digital revolution and media convergence
- Digital narratives: explore the new media languages to create stories. New forms of technology mediated interaction.
- New Media: evolution, principles & practice
- Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and augmented reality in communication

Given the laboratory nature of this unit, the students' work will be carried out in project-oriented groups.
In each project the following components are evaluated:
50% Project results (success in meeting the goals, degree of innovation, communication effectiveness, production quality, technical solution),  
30% Communication and documentation of the project (site, teaser, presentation, and demonstration),   20% Commitment and individual involvement 
Assessment methods will include:

- production exercises 

- practical tasks 

- peer review
- oral presentations 

- self-reflection

THERE WILL BE NO EXAME , given the laboratory nature of the unit
ELIMINATION CRITERIA
Not being included in a group on the date set for this purpose
Failure to present the work project, schedule and pitch on the date defined for this purpose

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