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Details of the course
ID: 4SA526
Name: New Media and Information Society
ECTS credits: 3
Duration: 2 hours per week, total duration 26 hours
Grading scheme: Class attendance and active paricipation - 25% Assignment (team project) - 30% Final test - 45%
Teacher
PhDr. Ing. Antonin Pavlicek
Office: 448 nb, Tue 9:15-10:15
email: antonin.pavlicek@vse.cz
Skype: pavlant
Target of the course
The goal of this course is to acquaint students with the New media and its challenges, opportunities, threads and both technological & social possibilities.
Course is opened not just for informatics' students, but for all students interested in new technologies (e.g. management, finance and economics students are welcome). Just basic understanding of internet and computers is expected. Course is both for graduate/undergraduate students.
Annotation
New media (internet, mobile phones, etc.) are rapidly changing contemporary society about the same way Johanes Gutenberg's invention of printing changed medieval society - when revolutionized access to the information by industrial means. Turbulent development of modern media together with their close relation to the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) makes New media studies absolutely essential for the students who want to stay in touch with the latest development. New Media is a field of study with the computer playing a central role as the medium for production, storage and distribution of information. The course focuses not only on the technological level of the new media, but also reflects on the social and ideological impact of the personal computer, computer networks and digital mobile devices on modern society as a whole and individual potential in particular.
Aim
Main goal of the course is to help change the perception of the media as a unbiased and neutral sources of information and help student to understand complexity and variability of modern world – information society. The area of New media is quite broad and interdisciplinary – it covers informatics, laws, politics, economics, art, history and sociology. We shall focus on the universal aspects and influences (such as digitalisation, globalisation, ownership/power concentration, economical/political/social pressures) whose better understanding will help us to orientate better in contemporary information society.
