Programme
Media Arts
Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS
Doctorate | Semestral | 15
Year | Type of course unit | Language
2 |Mandatory |Português
Total of Working Hours | Duration of Contact (hours)
375 | 60
Code
ULP1962-15363
Recommended complementary curricular units
n/a
Mode of study
Face-to-face
Precedences
Não
Professional Internship
Não
Syllabus
Monitoring of projects at an advanced stage of their preparation. Discussion of the planned outline and of what is already done; Discussion of the thesis or artistic project general argument and its appropriateness to the theoretical framework and methodology in application; Discussion of the project objectives, based on the communication sciences epistemological field.
General framework of contemporary research in communication sciences, according to the following directions of reflection: mutation of the media, participatory culture and network society; Media literacy; Technoculture and art.
Objectives
Discuss, using epistemological and methodological models, the progress of student research work at an advanced stage of its preparation.
Identify the main argument of each monographic work or artistic project and reflect on its original contribution
Framing each research project within the general framework of current research problems in communication sciences and in confrontation with the prevailing aesthetic tendencies of contemporaneity.
Produce a document that reflects each project progress.
Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired
Identify the various stages of the research process, monographic or artistic, according to the communication sciences multidisciplinary scope and according to the specificity of each individual project.
Understand the complementarity between the theoretical dimension and the practical dimension of an investigation.
Know how to evaluate the objectives and the results of each individual project, according to the potentialities and limitations of the chosen theoretical framework and methodology.
Know how to identify and contextualize fundamental issues that mark the topicality of research in communication sciences, in articulation with the field of arts.
Teaching methodologies and assessment
The curricular unit is basically practical and focused on students' projects. In each session, one or two students present the progress state of their project, exposing and developing the evolution of the problematization of the concepts that guide their work, the collection and treatment of information and, in the case of artistic projects, the material evolution of the artistic object. In each session theoretical texts are discussed to promote a critical dialogue with each project.
The evaluation is based on presentations made in class by each student (30%) and a document with a detailed development plan (70%), which includes the planned structure for the project, with its division into parts and chapters, and an advanced description of the artistic object to materialize, if that is the option of the student.
References
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Bolter, Jay David; Grusin, Richard. [1999] Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Press, 1999
Castells, Manuel. [1996] A Sociedade em Rede ¿ A Era da Informação: Economia, Sociedade e Cultura. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2012
Foss, Sonja K.; Waters, William. [2007] Destination Dissertation ¿ A Traveler¿s Guide to a Done Dissertation. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
Galloway, Alexander; Thacker, Eugene. [2007] The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Gleick, James. [2011] Informação ¿ Uma História, Uma Teoria, Um Dilúvio. Lisboa: Temas e Debates, 2012
Hörl, Erich. [2015] ¿The Technological Condition¿. In Parrhesia ¿ A Journal of Critical Philosophy, Number 22, 2015
Thorburn, D.; Jenkins, H. [2003] Rethinking Media Change. Cambridge (Mass.): The MIT Pre