2. Semester10 ECTS
History and Epistemology of Media
Students encounter digital media in historical context, exploring the history of computers from early computing in the 1930s-40s through cybernetics, graphical user interfaces, and relational databases, as well as the history of the Internet from the early 1960s-70s through the World Wide Web, dotcom boom, and contemporary social media.
2. Semester10 ECTS
Media Cultures
Students explore and analyse contemporary media cultures such as net cultures, sound cultures, digital and moving images, transmedia storytelling, games, robotics, and artificial intelligence from technological, economic, social and cultural perspectives.
2. Semester5 ECTS
Practical Experience in Digital Media I
Students gain hands-on skills in digital media applications such as web design, data management, image, audio and video editing, game and app design through workshops led by media practitioners, combined with seminars reflecting on the phenomenology of the computer as a medium.
2. Semester5 ECTS
Technological Basics I
Students receive an introduction to practical, theoretical and technical informatics and hands-on programming techniques, exploring different programming approaches and languages such as C++, Java, JavaScript, PHP and Python through lectures, group work, and coding labs.
3. Semester5 ECTS
Practical Experience in Digital Media II
Students plan and develop a complex digital media project in groups with social, cultural or political implications, including conceptualisation, target group research, prototype development, and attendance at advanced technical workshops.
4. Semester5 ECTS
Agents and Interfaces
Students apply methodological and theoretical approaches from Software Studies, platform studies, design studies, and Science and Technology Studies to analyse the hardware of technical artefacts and the front-end and back-end of software design.
4. Semester5 ECTS
Net Criticism
Students engage in contemporary debates on the future of the web including Internet surveillance, social media participation, Internet governance, new forms of collectivities, tactical media, open data, copyright and commons, with attention to historical dimensions and non-western net cultures.
4. Semester5 ECTS
Practical Experience in Digital Media III
Students plan, execute and launch a complex collaborative project with social, cultural or political impact, often building on earlier iterations, using experimental methods and approaches while developing soft skills in campaigning, community management, and technical skills in app development and data integration.
5. Semester5 ECTS
Economy of Digital Media
Students systematically examine the political economy and global geography of digital media sectors, including the role of hardware and software in labour processes, algorithmic finance, data mining, and economic relations in start-up cultures, while developing sustainable models for their own digital projects.
5. Semester5 ECTS
Recent Developments in Media Theory
Students immerse themselves in the latest debates in Digital Media Studies by reading recent monographs and engaging with contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches, positioning themselves within current academic debates and preparing for dissertation-level research.
5. Semester10 ECTS
Research Colloquium
A forum for students to discuss their ideas and questions leading toward their thesis, learning to develop their research through iterative feedback and constructive critique.
6. Semester15 ECTS
BA-Thesis
Students conduct rigorous research over 8 weeks, choosing from empirical, theoretical, technical or practical and creative approaches while incorporating elements of at least two additional areas, with supervision and peer-assessment structures.
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