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David
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Cyberculture
MSTD2032
Year 2, core module for Media degree and option for degrees
in Cinema and Screen Practice.
This
couårse has existed since September 2002.
Course
team:
Dr Andy Miah, Course Leader
Blane Savage, Lecturer in New Media
Alison Clifford, Lecturer in Digital Art
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Themes
identity
gender/sexuality
digital games
digital art
cyberpolitics
cyborg narratives |
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Students
will:
• Develop an understanding of the issues relating to cyber
culture
• Investigate issues relating to cyber politics and power
• Develop an understanding of comparisons between online
and offline communities
• Analyse the impact and implications of cyber culture
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Background
CyberCulture is at the forefront of social research and an emerging
topic in media theory. The term has evolved out of a number
of academic traditions including critical theory, cultural studies,
media theory, and sociology bringing into focus the collection
of cultures and products that exist in or are made possible
by the Internet, along with narratives told about these cultures
and cultural products. Its development has been significant
both in theory and research. This module builds upon the aspects
of ‘new’ media covered elsewhere in Media:, introducing
alternate aspects of CyberCulture to engage with broad sociological
concepts such as gender, sexuality, identity, narrative, politics,
and globalisation. This module offers the chance to engage with
cybercultural phenomena first hand, addressing complex concepts
of gender, sexuality, and identity, as they are problematised
in cyberspace. Themes arise about CyberSexuality, VideoGaming,
each of which are new technologies offering new creative industries
for media studies students. This course will promote a greater
understanding about the way in which the Internet, particularly
the World Wide Web is being continually re-configured, which
also brings into question the rigour and suitability of conventional
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Indicative
Content
Week 1 – Introduction to Cyberculture
Week 2 – Narratives of Cyberspace
Week 3 – Digital Language
Week 4 - Online Research Methods
Week 5 – Reading Week
Week 6 – CyberIdentity
Week 7 – Cyborg, Monsters and Others
Week 8 – Cyber-Art / Stelarc
Week 9 – Cyber politics
Week 10 – Digital Disobedience
Week 11 – CyberSexuality
Week 12 – Digital Games
“Cyberspace
does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can
build it, as though it were a public construction project.
You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through
our collective actions.” (John Perry Barlow, 1996) |
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Journals/Gateways
(please note, sometimes website addresses (urls) change. If
the link does not work, google the title to find what you
want.
Association
of Internet Researchers (AoIR): http://aoir.org/reports/ethics.html
CTHEORY: http://www.ctheory.net
CMC Magazine: http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/
CyberPsychology and Behaviour (library electronic journals)
Cybersoc: http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/home.html
Cybersociology: http://www.cybersociology.com/
Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture: http://www.monash.edu.au/journals/ejvc/
First Monday: http://firstmonday.org
Game Studies: http://cmc.uib.no/gamestudies/
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication: http://jcmc.huji.ac.il/jcmc.html
Ludology.org – VideoGame Theory: http://www.jacaranda.org/frasca/weblog/
Media Culture: http://www.media-culture.org.au/indexmain.html
Resource Center for Cybercultural Studies: http://www.otal.umd.edu/~rccs/
Spark-Online: http://www.spark-online.com
Articles/Chapters
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Miah, A. (2003) Cybersex: No Gender? No Sexuality? No Body,
in S. LaFont (Ed.) Constructing Sexualities: Readings in Sexuality,
Gender, and Culture, New York, Prentice Hall. [ON BLACKBOARD].
Miah, A. (2002) Book Review of Trigger Happy: The inner life
of video games by Steven Poole, London, Fourth Estate (2001),
Media, Culture & Society, 24(6) [ON BLACKBOARD].
Mikula, M. (2003). "Gender and Videogames: the political
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Campbell, C. and S. A. Wickman (2000). "Familiars in
a Strange Land: A Case Study of Friends Chatting Online."
M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 3(4):
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Clayton, L. (1997). "Are there virtual communities?"
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Blogs,
Resources, and Others
A.N.S.W.E.R. http://www.internationalanswer.org
Blog Census www.blogcensus.net
Infoshop http://www.infoshop.org
Kali Tal: http://www.freshmonsters.com/kalital/
MoveOn http://www.moveon.org
Slashdot http://www.Slashdot.org
United for Peace & Justice http://www.unitedforpeace.org
The Pew Internet and American Life Project (www.pewinternet.org)
Women’s eNews http://womensenews.org
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art&design // bioethics // china // cyberculture // ethics // law // medicine // olympics // outer space // politics // public engagement with science // science // sport // technology
Miah, A. (2008, Aug 3) A Posthuman Olympics, Washington Post, in press.
Miah, A. (2008, July 31) Inside the mind of a Marathon man, Nature, 454,583-4.
Miah, A. (2008) Paralympics 2.0, Bioethics Forum, The Hastings Center.
Miah, A. (2008) Letter to Utopia: A Reply to Bostrom, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).
Miah, A. (2008) Engineering Greater Resilience or Radical Transhuman Enhancement, Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology, 2(1).
Glasgow, Scotland i (30 Sept, 2008)
Our Cultural & Moral Commitment to Discover, Create, and Support New Life Forms, for LESS REMOTE: The Futures of Space Exploration: an Arts & Humanities Symposium, International Astronautical Congress, SEC, Glasgow, Scotland [abstract]
Beijing, China c (Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics, International Symposium on Olympic Research, Beijing National University and University of Western Ontario [outline].
Olympia, Greece i (July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Academy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines].
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Miah, A. (2008) Justifying Human Enhancement: The Accumulation of Biocultural Capital. In: Wint, S. Ethical Futures. The Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (RSA), London.
Miah, A. (2008) Playing Games with Artificial Intelligence. Hale, B. (Ed) Philosophy Looks at Chess . Open Court Press.
Miah, A. (2008). Posthumanism: A Critical History. In Gordijn, B. & Chadwick, R. 'Medical Enhancements and Posthumanity. Springer.
Miah, A. (2008) 'Blessed are the Forgetful': The Ethics of Memory Modification in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In Shapshay, S. (Ed) Bioethics Through Film, Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Zwart, N. H. (2007). "Genomics and self-knowledge: implications for societal research and debate." New Genetics and Society 26(2): 181-202.
Mitchell, C. B., E. D. Pellegrino, et al. (2007). Biotechnology and the Human Good. Washington, DC., Georgetown University Press.
Peters, H. P., J. T. Lang, et al. (2007). "Culture and Technological Innovation: Impact of Institutional Trust and Appreciation of Nature on Attitudes towards Food Biotechnology in the USA and Germany." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 19(2): 191-220.
House of Commons Select Committee, Science And Technology (2007) Report on Human Enhancement Technologies in Sport.
Koolstra CM, Bos MJW, Vermeulen IE. Through which medium should science information professionals communicate with the public: television or the internet? Journal of Science Communication 2006;5(3):1-8.
May, 2008
The technological enhancement of man, Danish Broadcasting Corporation
April, 2008
Evening Standard
Beijing 2008 Olympics and Protest
March, 2008
The Sports Factor, ABC Radio, Blogging at the Beijing Olympics
Feb, 2008
ESPN Magazine
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Beijing, China c (5 Aug, 2008)
Chair and Speaker for panel symposium on Emergent Journalistic Cultures at the Olympics [outline] |
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Olympia, Greece i (20 July, 2008)
Supervising Professor, International Olympic Acadmy 16th Postgraduate Seminar [Lecture Outlines]. |
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Leeds, UK c (16 July, 2008)
Ambush Media: Journalistic Freedom & Media Politics at the Beijing Olympics, Olympic Politics and Protest, Leeds Metropolitan University [abstract]. |
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London, UK ia (4 July, 2008)
Research Cluster on Innovative Media for a Digital Economy: Health Industries Workshop, British Medical Association House. |
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Liverpool, UK i (July, 2008)
Keynote, Body & Economy, London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, FACT. |
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Chicago , USA ia (Jun, 2008)
2016 Olympic Bid conference, the contribution of the arts. |
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San Francisco , USA i (Jun, 2008)
Bioethics and Doping colloquium, St Mary's College. |
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London, UK c (Jun, 2008)
with Ana Adi, Framing Beijing's Olympic Bid: Human Rights Advocacy Groups and Online Mainstream International Media, Changes and Challenges: China’s Media, University of Westminster, London, [abstract] |
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Oxford, UK i (May, 2008)
Guest Seminar, St James Martin Institute for the 21st Century, Programme on Biomedical Ethics and Future of Humanity Institute |
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