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Presentation
Presentation
The medium concept emerges as a subsumption of the relationship between technology and communication and its effects on society and culture in history. The concept seeks to describe the instrumental domain of the human creative process, but it also serves to self-understand. Meio has become a hinge category since the end of the century. XIX with the emergence of mass media. A media theory can only be thought of together with a media genealogy, thus enabling the understanding of human action in its historical expressiveness. The historical-theoretical focus allows access to the problems that the media produced and the effects that they are having in societies that are markedly dependent on technological mediations and on media technologies. Objectives and competences are intertwined in the program to provide a view of the problems generated by the media in the past and in contemporary society.
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Class from course
Class from course
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Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Degree | Semesters | ECTS
Master Degree | Semestral | 6
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Year | Nature | Language
Year | Nature | Language
1 | Mandatory | Português
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Code
Code
ULHT6348-23285
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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. Marxist media critique: Walter Benjamin: media and art; Günther Anders: world in images; Hans Magnus Enzensberger: media and mobilization. The Canadian School of Media: Harold A. Innis: time and space; Eric A. Havelock: the Greek inheritance; Marshall McLuhan: the extensions of body. 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
Public discussion of the arguments surrounding the issues raised and classroom exercises.
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References
References
Benjamin, Walter (2006). «A obra de arte na era da sua possibilidade de reprodução técnica». In Benjamin, Walter (2006), A modernidade. Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim, pp. 207-241. Enzensberger, Hans Magnus (1997). «Constituents of a Theory of Media». In Druckrey, Timothy (Ed.), Electronic Culture. New York: Aperture, pp. 62-85. Flusser, Vilém (1998). Ensaio sobre a fotografia. Para uma filosofia da técnica. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água. Groys, Boris (2000). Bajo sospecha. Una fenomenología de los medios. Valencia: Pre-textos. Havelock, Eric A. (1996). A musa aprende a escrever. Reflexões sobre a oralidade e a literacia da antiguidade até ao presente. Lisboa: Gradiva. Innis, Harold A. (2006). The Bias of Communication. Toronto: Toronto University Press. Kittler, Friedrich A. (1999). Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Stanford: Stanford University Press. McLuhan, Marshall (2001). Understanding Media. London/New York: Routledge
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Office Hours
Office Hours
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Mobility
Mobility
No
