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EMT304 Critical Engagements with Technologies and Media (8)
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This subject examines trends, issues and ideas that underpin the understanding, interpretation and use of technologies and different forms of media that permeate living in the 21st century. Utilizing critical perspectives that envisage technologies and media as product, medium and technique for negotiating meaning, we examine the ways in which technologies and the media have historically transformed how we see reality, and how they fundamentally contribute to the project of democracy and citizenship. We examine both “high” and “low” technologies as media within the context of personal and professional decision-making. |
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Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: EMT304
Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Teacher Education |
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Enrolment restrictions|
Restricted to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Early Childhood Studies, or at the discretion of the Course Coordinator. |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- consider the concepts of “technology” and media from different critical perspectives and to develop your own definitions of these complex notions;
- consider the ubiquitous ways technologies and media play a role in the access and barriers to information and power mobility by demonstrating an understanding of the intersections of territoriality, disintermediation and re-intermediation;
- be able to critically analyse the use of technology and media literacy on personal and professional decision-making;
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of contemporary issues which impact on the use of technology and media; and
- demonstrate skills in research, effective communication and presentation.
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- Multimodality, new technologies, Media Literacy and Popular Culture Imagination.
- What is technology: dTechnology, Technique and Techne.
- Reading and Writing Information literacies, Media literacies, Digital literacies.
- New Borderlands: Deterritorialization, Disintermediation and Re-intermediation.
- Mobilities: A Translocal and ?Glocal? Perspective on the Internationalization of Technology and media.
- Does Social media tell us who we are? Platform migration and representing Identity.
- The digital divide: Gendered Technologies ? Analogue vs. Digital Identities.
- Borderless and Borderlands: The project of Democracy and Citizenship.
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
