Information Management and Career Development
Module 1
Media Studies 2.0 and Emerging Technologies
17 Courses
Philosophy of Technology and Design: Shaping the Relations Between Humans and Technologies Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Twente Started: 06/09/2017 Finished: 20/09/2017 Introduction to Communication Science Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Amsterdam Started: 13/10/2015 Finished: 19/08/2016 The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 1) Platform: Coursera Institution: Wesleyan University Started: 25/12/2015 Finished: 22/07/2016 The Modern and the Postmodern (Part 2) Platform: Coursera Institution: Wesleyan University Started: 23/07/2016 Finished: 09/09/2016 Understanding Media by Understanding Google Platform: Coursera Institution: Northwestern University Started: 04/06/2014 Finished: 07/07/2014 Understanding Video Games Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Alberta Started: 01/09/2015 Finished: 22/06/2016 Pictures of Youth: An Introduction to Children’s Visual Culture Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of York Started: 06/08/2018 Finished: 09/08/2018 Lights, Camera, Computer - Action! How Digital Technology is Transforming Film, TV, and Gaming Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of York Started: 18/02/2023 Finished: 18/02/2023 The History of the Book in the Early Modern Period: 1450 to 1800 Platform: FutureLearn Institution: Trinity College Dublin Started: 31/01/2023 Finished: 14/02/2023 How to read a mind: An Introduction to Understanding Literary Characters Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Nottingham Started: 21/04/2014 Finished: 02/06/2014 Internet Giants: The Law and Economics of Media Platforms Platform: Coursera Institution: The University of Chicago Started: 13/10/2015 Finished: 01/09/2020 Smartphone Emerging Technologies Platform: Coursera Institution: Yonsei University Started: 24/07/2015 Finished: 28/07/2015 Big Data, Cloud Computing & CND Emerging Technologies Platform: Coursera Institution: Yonsei University Started: 03/08/2015 Finished: 05/08/2015 Internet Emerging Technologies Platform: Coursera Institution: Yonsei University Started: 08/08/2015 Finished: 11/09/2015 Internet of Things & Augmented Reality Emerging Technologies Platform: Coursera Institution: Yonsei University Started: 01/09/2015 Finished: 11/09/2015 Wireless Communication Emerging Technologies Platform: Coursera Institution: Yonsei University Started: 11/09/2015 Finished: 14/09/2015 Building a Future with Robots Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Sheffield Started: 31/08/2018 Finished: 01/09/2018
7 Books
Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media Research Author: David Gauntlett Publisher: Self-published Published: 2011 Started: 15/07/2015 Finished: 02/08/2015
Media Studies 2.0 Author: William Merrin Publisher: Routledge Published: 2014 Started: 23/06/2016 Finished: 21/06/2016
Technologies of Seeing: Photography, Cinematography and Television Author: Brian Winston Publisher: British Film Institute Published: 1997 (first published November 1996) Started: 29/11/2014 Finished: 19/05/2015
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Author: Marshall McLuhan Publisher: Signet Published: 1966 (first published 1964) Started: 25/01/2016 Finished: 23/05/2016
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects Author: Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore Publisher: Penguin Published: 2008 (first published 1967) Started: 28/05/2016 Finished: 06/06/2016
Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization Author: Parag Khanna & Ayesha Khanna Publisher: TED Conferences Published: 2012 Started: 09/06/2019 Finished: 13/07/2019
Everything I Know I Learned From TV: Philosophy For the Unrepentant Couch Potato Author: Mark Rowlands Publisher: Ebury Press Published: 2005 Started: 15/12/2013 Finished: 14/06/2013
“‘Media Studies 2.0’ also emphasizes a sociological focus on the media as it is in the world, and as people experience it – and therefore is (happily, but less crucially) associated with a welcome end to the armchair ramblings of ‘textual analysis,’ which represent the antithesis of informed sociological commentary and critique, and a recognition that the boundaries which ‘film studies’ and ‘television studies’ seek to place around themselves are meaningless artefacts of last century’s media landscape.“
David Gauntlett, Media Studies 2.0: And Other Battles Around the Future of Media Research, 2011
The academic field of media studies has become very set in its ways and difficult to reconcile with the introductions of new technologies. Media Studies 2.0 looks to bring the discipline boldly into the 21st-century by utilising a much more constructive, experimental and open-source approach to studying the field.
When I was studying my BA (Hons) in Film and Screen Studies, I became increasingly interested in the larger media studies field. Then when I wrote my dissertation, Ways of Being: The Spectator and the Spectacle, I started to develop a real interest in how emerging technologies could influence the media landscape and radically transform the way we live our lives.
This module picks up where my undergraduate media studies left off and also contains the very first MOOC I studied as part of my MTA Portfolio, The Future of Storytelling, which itself had a huge influence on my progressive approach towards studying media technologies.
Obviously, the two books on Media Studies 2.0, one by David Gauntlett and the other by William Merrin, were two key blueprints of this module; as was the MOOC Philosophy of Technology and Design: Shaping the Relations Between Humans and Technologies. Finally, Marshall McLuhan, the media studies titan and global thinker whose ideas are still being unraveled today served as a refreshing rethinking of the discipline and how we interface with media in our day-to-day lives.
The relationship between humans and technology has always fascinated me and it is something I will always consider to be open-ended, so this module is far from being the final word on the subject.