Programme

Media Arts

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

Doctorate | Semestral | 7,5

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)

187,8 | 45

Code

ULP1962-15361

Recommended complementary curricular units

n/a

Mode of study

Face-to-face

Precedences

Não

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

1. For a kinetic critique of modernity. From 'infinite mobilization in Sloterdijk to' global mobilization in Lopez-Petit. 2. The euphemistic empowerment of modern man: the proscription of the spectator by the normative-institutional and communicational devices of modernity. 3. From the public space mediated as production of a rarefaction: visual pollution of events and the battlefield of the visible in Paul Virilio. 4. Anonymity and citizenship: a modern conflict 5. Netativism, anonymity and networks - analytical decomposition of cases. 6. Activism and education with communities 7. Introduction to action research 8. Civic-media literacy (case studies with young and old: communication and participation) 9. Educommunication 10. Photovoice 11. Communities of practice

Objectives

It is a curricular unit in which one tries to study how technically mediated connections (and consequent disconnections) are opening up possibilities or even to configure new and / or alternative modes and models of action, whose characterization and theoretical descriptions place it on the margins of the normative-institutional and communicational systems of modernity.

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

Activism and so-called netativism will thus be studied from their political possibilities, but also as visible manifestations of the processes of social and cultural innovation that are ongoing, concomitant (and, in many cases, conflicting) with the processes of globalization.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The teaching methodologies will be essentially expositive, aiming to stimulate the debate and the critical reading of the works and the authors of reference. It is intended that students gain autonomy of reflective production and analytical ability. The evaluation of the unit will be done through the individual preparation of an essay or article of research and / or development of the concepts presented in the unit, preferably applied to the future development of a research project, which will constitute the final evaluation element.

References

Agamben, G. (1990), A Comunidade Que Vem, Lisboa: Editorial Presença. 1993

Arendt, H. (1957), A Condição Humana, Lisboa: Relógio d¿Água. 2001

Buckingham, David (2003). Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture, Cambridge, Polity Press.

Cammarota, J., & Fine, M. (Eds.) (2008). Revolutionizing education: Youth participatory action research in motion, Nova Iorque, Routledge.

Felice, M. di (2012), Paisagens Pós-Urbanas ¿ O Fim da Experiência Urbana e as Formas Comunicativas do Habitar

Lopez-Petit, S. (2009), A Mobilização Global seguida de O Estado-Guerra, Porto: Deriva Editores. 2011

Loureiro, L. M. (2011), O Ecrã da Identificação. Tese de doutoramento em Ciências da Comunicação. Braga: Universidade do Minho (disponível online no RepositoriUM)

Sloterdijk, P. (1989), A Mobilização Infinita ¿ Para Uma Crítica da Cinética Política. Lisboa: Relógio d¿Água. 2004

Virilio, Paul (1994), The Vision Machine, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1994