MCS516 DIGITAL MEDIA THEORY
| Course Code: |
8160516 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): |
3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: |
8.0 |
| Department: |
Media And Cultural Studies |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Study: |
Masters |
| Course Coordinator: |
Prof.Dr. AHMET RAÞÝT KAYA |
| Offered Semester: |
Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This graduate course is designed for understanding the new media technologies and new narrative forms which surround us today, as well as the cultural conditions they establish before us. It starts with a critical analysis of the social transformation that we call postmodernism today, relates this structural transformation with the new media technologies, and then explicates the new ontological conditions brought forth by these new media technologies. What follows is a further discussion of the constitutive elements of the new narrative forms presented by these new media technologies-such as virtuality, hypertextuality,non-linearity, interactivity, rhizomatics and technological embodiment. Final direction of the course is to evaluate on the economic and political dimensions of such notions and theoretical openings they provide.
