The Work of Media Consumption
Posted on | September 3, 2008 |
We are half way through the Advanced Cultural Studies course I’ve been teaching this semester with my colleagues Graeme Turner and Mark Andrejevic. I thought I’d share the course outline to give a sense of what we’ve been up to.
Advanced cultural studies: The work of media consumption
July 23
New media utopias and dystopias
Group discussion
Readings
• Axel Bruns, ‘Reconfiguring television for a networked, produsage context’, Media International Australia, No. 126 2008, pp 82-94.
• Søren Mørk Petersen, ‘Loser Generated Content: From Participation to Exploitation’ First Monday 13.3 March 2008
• Kylie Jarrett, ‘Interactivity is Evil! A critical investigation of Web 2.0’, First Monday 13.3 March 2008
• Mark Andrejevic, ‘The Webcam Subculture and the Digital Enclosure’, MediaSpace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age, Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy (eds) Routledge, 2004. pp 193-208
• David Morley, ‘Rhetorics of the Technological Sublime: the Paradoxes of Technical Rationality’, Media, Modernity and Technology: The Geography of the New Routledge, 2006.
August 6
Sites of consumption
Discussion led by Graeme Turner
Readings
• Amanda Lotz, Chapter 1, The Television Will be Revolutionized, New York University Press, 2007
• Karen Lury, ‘Confessions of a Television Academic in a Post-TV World’, Flow, 7:07 2008
• Jinna Tay and Graeme Turner, ‘What is Television? Comparing media systems in the post-broadcast era’, Media International Australia 126 2008, pp. 71-81
• Michael Keane, Anthony Fung and Albert Moran, Chapter 2, New Television, Globalisation and the East Asian Cultural Imagination, Hong Kong University Press, 2007.
August 20
Work and Labour
Discussion led by Mark Andrejevic
Readings
• Tiziana Terranova ‘Free Labour’, Social Text 18.2 2000, pp. 33-58
• Steve Wright, ‘Reality Check: Are We Living in an Immaterial World?’ Mute Magazine: Culture and politics after the net
• Michael Hardt, ‘Affective Labor’, boundary 2, 26.2 1999 pp.89-100
• Ursula Huws, ‘Material World: The Myth of the Weightless Economy’, The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World, Monthly Review Press 2003, pp. 126-151
• Massimo De Angelis, ‘Marx and Primitive Accumulation: The Continuous Character of Capital’s Enclosures’, The Commoner No 2 September, 2001.
September 3
Production Cultures
Discussion led by Melissa Gregg
Readings
• Mark Banks, ‘The Construction of Creativity’, The Politics of Cultural Work, Palgrave, 2007, pp. 69-93
• Andrew Ross, ‘Jobs in Candyland: An Introduction’, No Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs, Basic Books, 2003 pp. 1-20
• John Caldwell. ‘Trade Images and Imagined Communities (Below the Line)’, Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television, Duke University Press, 2008 pp. 110-149
• Geert Lovink, ‘“I work here, but I’m cool”: Interview with Alan Liu’, Net Critique
• Screenings of 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
September 17
What was the media?
Discussion led by students
Readings
David Gauntlett, ‘Media Studies 2.0’ Theory.org.uk
Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller, ‘Ecological Ethics and Media Technology’, International Journal of Communication 2 (2008)
October 8
Student presentations
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