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Methods of Cultural & Media Studies | Understanding the Virtual - Methoden der Kultur- & Medienwissenschaft | Understanding the Virtual
Knowledge
No specific knowledge is required in advance.
Description
Things are getting more and more unreal. The economy increasingly virtualizes its values and currencies; markets turn towards behavioral prediction of users and thus away from realist subjects deciding upon facts; avatars or filters help users find ‘truer’ selves then they would in real life; behavioral prediction and manipulation of opinions create bubbles and dismantle the public sphere, while fact-checking can barely dissimulate the decline of a shared political reality; our everyday lives are evolving in co-presence of user-interfaces and make us interact with things that are there and not there and increasingly with persons who do not exist as humans; the automation of intelligence starts to pervade communication, knowledge, insights – so that even the reflection on these developments gradually emancipates from realist subjects. It is not helpful to adjust to this situation as a new reality, because it is not reality: it is more Virtual than Real. We are witnessing a collapse of Reality. The challenge of the course is to find conceptual tools for describing the ongoing virtualization of our present, while also contextualizing it in an historical trajectory.
Learning objectives
The goal of this course include: - Gaining familiarity with digital infrastructures and the "automation of everything" - Understanding particularities of the virtual. - Exploring philosophical and theoretical texts and learn how to handle them. - Gaining familiarity with contemporary debates. - Gaining insights in the history and present of media.
E-learning
Course Material will be uploaded online.
Preparation
Regular attendance, close preparation using course material, and participation in discussion are required.
Next events
1/12 | Lecture | Mo, 03.02.2025 | 16:30 Uhr | 19:00 Uhr | 1.06 | Aquarium |
2/12 | Lecture | Mo, 10.02.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
3/12 | Lecture | Mo, 17.02.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
4/12 | Lecture | Mo, 24.02.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
5/12 | Lecture | Mo, 03.03.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
6/12 | Lecture | Mo, 10.03.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
7/12 | Lecture | Mo, 17.03.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
8/12 | Lecture | Mo, 24.03.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
9/12 | Lecture | Mo, 31.03.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
10/12 | Lecture | Mo, 07.04.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
11/12 | Lecture | Mo, 28.04.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
12/12 | Lecture | Mo, 05.05.2025 | 13:30 Uhr | 16:00 Uhr | 1.05 | Aquarium |
Course details
Offer code | 111102 |
Version | 4 Neumodellierung_6CP |
Credits / ECTS | 6 |
WSH | 3 |
Frequence | Every Springsemester |