The BA Journalism was recently re-written to better cater for single honours and joint students and has now been approved. The MA Digital Media Practice is brought to validation on 23rd April and the MA Journalism on May 20th. Next year there are plans to write a single honours BA FCT, an MA Radio Production, possibly an MA Television Studio Production, and for the planning to be undertaken for an MA route for BA Media Studies students. Anyone interested n these developments - get in touch!
BA Media Studies and BA Film Studies are due for re-approval next year. We need to start meeting and planning for these programme re-writes. Whose interested in the Media Studies 2.0 debate? Is Gauntlett a genius or a ... er ... not a genius?
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NOT genius - trendy nonsense that will disappear like Second Life!
ReplyDeleteIt would be a good idea to have a team taught departmental lecture series which all the students on Media Studies, Film and Journalism attend. I think this should be a bit more historically based with a bit more of a social science feel to it, to better cater for journalism. If there's roughly two lecturers per course then the three courses together would muster six lectuers, which means roughly two lectuers per lecturer per term. These could be linked to lecturer's own research. Great leader would co-ordinate it all and we would dish out essays according to course. Would make good use of the stripe lecture theatre.
ReplyDeleteHere is what Solent is doing with Second Life. I am not a SL user or fan myself. But it looks plausible for areas like fashion design, and product design. It the high end there is medical imagining and various simulators, such as flight simulators. We could I suppose move News City into second life and full 3D simulation at some point. Depends how much time and money is there to spend on programming. My feeling is that MIT is not using it, so neither should we. We should just do whatever MIT is doing, in our more scaled down way - eg we definately should have far more lectures on streaming video by now.
ReplyDeleteSorry here'sthe actual Solent link
ReplyDeletehttp://schoolofmediaandfilmblog.blogspot.com/
Yrs Chris
I mean here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyCb_MkjzN0
If you look on youtube art colleges seem to use it a lot - especially for fashion.
The link to student culture is strong. The Sims is a top ranking computer game and the only computer game with more girl users than boys - there are millions of girls use it.
It works like a soap opera which the users can interact with. It has sales of over 100 million - hardly 'trendy nonsense that goes noweher' - actually a significant form of medoia, though one that is mainly of use and appeal to females so therefore ignored by the male orientated academic media world I am afraid - tend to dismiss it all out of hand in typical patriarchial way.
For sims - see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18270JPKwj4&feature=PlayList&p=0C577B69070DE42C&index=1&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL
Sim City is pretty big as well, it is based essentially on econometrics. That's more of boy thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9nN5NxOK8
My son Tom likes it. It is a God Game.
I would say fully 25percent of our students announce themselves as enthusiaric users of computer games on their facebook etc. So it is not something that we should ignore.
But that is the entire extent of my knowlege about second life.
I think that Justine's point was that Second Life is actually arriving rapidly at the end of its life and is likely to not exist in a few months.
ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of a lecture series, unfortunately it is our experience that we simply cannot get the 'host' subject to remember that they should behave nicely and not give out messages specific to their subject or lean the lecture towards their specific assessments.
I would love to see a lecture series that used events in the past week or so to explore concepts and theories. There are aspects of our study on all subjects in the School which are applicable to all others.