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MAS 330 – Culture and Technology

2012 – D2

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit Convenor
John Potts
john.potts@mq.edu.au
Contact via john.potts@mq.edu.au
Y3A 165J
Monday 3-4
Credit points Credit points
3
Prerequisites Prerequisites
39cp
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description
This unit explores the complex relation between technology and culture. Our primary focus is on creative expression, particularly the ways in which artists have used and represented technology. Broader social, political and cultural issues regarding technology are considered in this specific context.

Important Academic Dates

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Due
Short essay 20% 14 September
Tutorial presentation 20% Weeks 5-13
Class participation 20% Ongoing
Major essay 40% 12 November

Short essay

Due: 14 September
Weighting: 20%

Topic: Analyse a work of art or fiction in any form or media. How is technology represented in this work? What values are attributed to technology in the work?
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Tutorial presentation

Due: Weeks 5-13
Weighting: 20%

Tutorial presentation, 10-15’ presentation.

This is a verbal presentation, designed to test generic skills of delivery and presentation. Students may refer to notes and use props (video, projections etc.); however, the presentation is not to be read. Students will be assessed on the content of the presentation, its effectiveness as communication, and responses to questions from the tutorial group.

Topic: Choose a technology as a case study. Analyse the interaction between this technology and pertinent cultural and social factors. Include in this study an analysis of the technology’s history, its development and implementation, as well as its social/cultural effects. How do you interpret the relation between the technology and culture?
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Class participation

Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 20%


On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Major essay

Due: 12 November
Weighting: 40%

Choose one of the following:

 1) Discuss the cultural and social implications of new media technologies. Effects are being felt in, for example, intellectual property, notions of authorship, patterns of communication and consumption, the experience of space and time, ethics and privacy. Analyse the cultural ramifications of internet and/or other digital technologies by focusing on one of these areas.

 2) How has technology affected consciousness? Discuss the impact of communication, information or other technologies on consciousness. You may include as aspects of consciousness: cognition, perception, memory, sense of self.

 3) You may submit a production work instead of an essay. This work should be concerned with the relation between technology and culture. It must be accompanied by a written rationale of 750-1000 words, outlining the conceptual base of the production. All productions must be approved in advance by your tutor.

 The topic of the essay must be different to that of the tutorial presentation.

Late submissions without medical certificate will be penalised.

Alternatives of production assignment or group projects are to be negotiated with your tutor. 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Delivery and Resources

 

  Required and recommended texts and/or materials

 

A book of course readings is available from the Co-Op Bookshop. The weekly readings as listed in the Unit Schedule include additional recommended readings: these are available in books held in the Library, or may be requested from the convenor. A list of websites and journals pertaining to major topics is included below after the References.

 

 

  technology used and required

 

The unit uses the following technology:

iLearn

Echo360

 

REFERENCES

The following are held in the Library

 

RESERVE

Copies of Murphie and Potts, Culture and Technology; Tofts, Interzone: Media Arts in Australia; and Rush, New Media in Art are held in Reserve.

 Amerika, Mark remixthebook Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2011

Ascott, Roy (ed) Art, Technology, Consciousness: mind@large Bristol: Intellect 2000

Barglow, R.  The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information  London: Routledge 1994

 Baudrillard, Jean  The Gulf War Did Not Take Place  Sydney: Power 1996

Simulations New York: Semiotext(e) 1984

 Bell, David An Introduction to Cybercultures London: Routledge 2001

 Bender & Druckrey, eds  Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology  Seattle: Bay Press 1995

 Benjamin, Walter Illuminations London: Fontana 1970

 Bettig, Ronald V. Copyrighting Culture: the Political Economy of Intellectual Property Boulder: Westview Press 1996

 Bukatman, Scott Blade Runner London: BFI 1997

Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction 

Duke University Press 1993

Burnett, Robert and Marshall, David (eds) Web Theory: An Introduction London: Routledge 2003

 Carr, Nicholas, The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember London: Atlantic 2010 

 Castells, Manuel  The Rise of the Network Society  London: Blackwell 1996

 Clover, Joshua The Matrix London: BFI 2004

 Cubitt, Sean Digital Aesthetics London: Sage 1998

 Davis, Erik  TechGnosis London: Serpent’s Tail 1999

 Druckrey, Tim  Electronic Culture: Technology and the Visual  New York: Aperture 1996

 Ede, Sian, Art & Science London: I. B. Tauris 2005

 Edwards, David  Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation  Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2008

 Eisenstein, Elizabeth The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early-Modern Europe New York: Cambridge University Press 1979

Ezrahi et al (eds)  Technology, Pessimism and Postmodernism  University of Massachusetts Press 1995

 Feather, John  The Information Society: A Study of Continuity and Change  Fifth Edition  London: Facet Publishing 2008

 Featherstone & Burrows (eds) Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk London: Sage 1995

 Flew, Terry New Media: An Introduction Melbourne: Oxford University Press 2005

 Fuller, Gillian and Harley, Ross Aviopolis: A Book About Airports London: Black Dog Publishing 2005

 Garfinkel, Simson Database Nation: The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century Cambridge: O’Reilly 2000

 Gere, Charlie, Digital Culture London: Reaktion 2008

 Gergen, K. J. The Saturated Self Basic Books 1991

 Goggin, Gerard Cell Phone Culture: Mobile Technology in Everyday Life Oxon: Routledge, 2006

 Gorman, Lyn and McLean, David  Media and Society into the 21st Century  Second Edition  Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 

 Green, Leila Technoculture: From Alphabet to Cybersex Sydney: Allen & Unwin 2002

 Green & Guinery (eds) Framing Technology Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1994

 Greene, Rachel Internet Art London: Thames & Hudson 2004

 Greenfield, Susan ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century London: Sceptre 2008

Tomorrow’s People: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the     Way We Think and Feel London: Sceptre 2004

 Grodin, Debra and Lindlof, Thomas  (eds) Constructing the Self in a Mediated World  London: Sage 1996

 Haraway, Donna  Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Re-invention of Nature  New York: Routledge 1991

 Harries, Dan (ed) The New Media Book London: BFI 2002

 Hayles, N. Katherine How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999

 Heim, Michael Virtual Realism  University of Oxford Press 1998

Herman, Andrew and Swiss, Thomas (eds) The World Wide Web and Contemporary Theory New York: Routledge 2000

 Hill, Stephen  The Tragedy of Technology  Sydney: Pluto 1989

 Holmes, Thom  Electronic and Experimental Music 2nd edition London: Routledge 2002

 Horgan, John  The Undiscovered Mind  London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson  1999

 Ihde, Don  Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction  New York: Paragon House 1993

 Jenkins, Henry Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide New York: New York University Press, 2006

Jones, Barry   Sleepers, Wake!  Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1988

Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip and Gherab-Martin, Karim Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2011

 Keen, Andrew The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture New York: Currency, 2006

Kelly, Caleb  Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction Cambridge: MIT Press 2009

Kuhn, Annette ed. Alien Zone  London: Verso  1990

                        Alien Zone 11  London: Verso 1999

 Kusek, David and Leonhard, Gerd The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution Boston: Berklee Press, 2005

Latour, Bruno Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005

 Lefebvre, Henri, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life London: Continuum 2004

            The Production of Space Oxford: Blackwell 1991 

 Lessig, Lawrence Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and The Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity Penguin 2004

Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace New York: Basic Books 1999

 Levin, Frohne and Weibel (eds) CTRL Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother Karlsruhe: ZKM 2002

 Levinson, Paul Digital McLuhan London: Routledge 1999

 Levy, Pierre Becoming Virtual: Reality in the Digital Age  New York: Plenum Trade 1998

Collective Intelligence  New York: Plenum Trade 1997

 Lewontin, Richard The Doctrine of DNA: Biology as Ideology London: Penguin 1993

 Lonik, Geert  Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture Cambridge: MIT Press 2002

 Mackenzie & Wajcman eds  The Social Shaping of Technology  Oxford University Press 1999

 McGrath, John E. Loving Big Brother: Performance, Privacy and Surveillance Space London: Routledge 2004

 McLuhan, Marshall  Understanding Media  London: Abacus  1974

                             The Medium is the Massage  Penguin 1967

 McQuire, Scott  Visions of Modernity  London: Sage 1996

 Manovich, Lev The Language of New Media Cambridge: MIT Press 2001

 Marshall, P. David  New Media Cultures  London: Arnold 2004

 Meikle, Graham and Young, Sherman Media Convergence Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2012

Meikle, Graham Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet New York: Routledge 2002

Meyrowitz, Joshua No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour Oxford: Oxford University Press 1985

 Moravec, Hans Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1988

 Murphie, Andrew and Potts, John Culture and Technology Basingstoke: Palgrave 2003

 Olalquiaga, Celeste Megalopolis: Contemporary Cultural Sensibilities University of Minnesota Press 1992

 Ong, W. J.  Orality and Literacy  London: Routledge  1982

 Pacey, Arnold Meaning in Technology  MIT Press  1999

Paul, Christiane Digital Art London: Thames & Hudson 2003

Pinker, Steven How The Mind Works New York: WW Norton 1997

 Plant, Sadie  Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture  London: Fourth Estate 1997

 Postman, Neil  Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Harvard University Press 1993

 Rodzvilla, John (ed) We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture Cambridge, MA.: Perseus Books, 2002 

 Rose, Steven The Making of Memory London: Bantamm Press 1992

 Rosenberg, Daniel and Harding, Susan (eds) Histories of the Future Durham: Duke University Press 2005

 Ross, Andrew  Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits London: Verso 1991

 Rush, Michael New Media in Art London: Thames & Hudson 2005

 Schroeder, Ralph Rethinking Science, Technology and Social Change Stanford: Stanford University Press 2007

 Solove, Daniel J.  The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet New Haven: Yale University Press 2007

 Suzuki & Knudston  Genethics: The Ethics of Engineering Life  Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1989

 Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anthony, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything London: Atlantic 2007

 Taylor, Timothy D.  Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture  New York: Routledge 2001

 Theberge, Paul  Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology Hanover: Wesleyan University Press 1997

 Tofts, Darren Interzone: Media Arts In Australia Melbourne: Craftsmans House 2005

Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberspace  Melbourne: 21C  1998

 Tofts, Jonson & Cavallaro (eds) Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2002

 Turkle, Sherry  Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other New York: Basic Books, 2011 

            Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet  New York: Simon & Shuster 1995

            The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit  New York: Simon & Shuster 1984

 Varnelis, Kazys (ed) Networked Publics Cambridge: MIT Press 2008

 Virilio, Paul  The Aesthetics of Disappearance  New York: Semiotext(e) 1991

                        War and Cinema London: Verso 1989

 Wajcman, Judy  Feminism Confronts Technology  Sydney: Allen & Unwin 1991

 Warrick, Patricia  The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction  MIT Press 1980

 Wark, McKenzie  Gamer Theory  Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2007

 Williams, Raymond  Television: Technology and Cultural Form  New York: Schocken Books 1975

 Winner, Langdon  The Whale and the Reactor  University of Chicago Press  1986

 Winston, Brian  Media Technology and Society  London: Routledge 1998

 Woodmansee, Martha and Jaszi, Peter (eds) The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature Durham: Duke University Press 1994

 

 JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

 

Convergence

Media Culture and Society

Media International Australia

New Formations

Continuum

 

Wired

Real Time

 

 

ON-LINE JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

SCAN: Journal of Media Arts and Culture: http:://scan.net.au

FIBRECULTURE  http://journal.fibreculture.org

M/C – A Journal of Media & Culture: http://media-culture.org.au

fibreculture: http://www.fibreculture.org/

SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES  http://www.depauw.edu/sfs

COUNTERBLAST: The E-Journal of Culture and Communication  - http://www.nyu.edu/pubs/counterblast

CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA   http://ctheory.concordia.ca

FRAME: Online Journal of Culture and Technology  http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame

CYBERSOCIOLOGY magazine   http://www.cybersociology.com

GAME STUDIES: International Journal of Computer Game Research -  www.gamestudies.org

DOTLIT The Online Journal of Creative Writing  www.dotlit.qut.edu.au

MESH  http://www.experimenta.org/mesh/mesh.html

REAL TIME + ON SCREEN http://www.realtimearts.net

 

RECOMMENDED WEBSITES

MEDIA ARTS

AUSTRALIAN NETWORK FOR ART AND TECHNOLOGY http://www.anat.org.au

DIGITAL INTERACTIVE ARTISTS’ NETWORK  http://dian-network.com

SYNAPSE – Art and Science  http://www.synapse.net.au

ARS ELECTRONICA  http://www.aec.at

trAce Online Writing Centre: http://trace.ntu.ac.uk

Electronic Music Foundation: http://www.emf.org

SONUS music project: http://www.sonus.ca 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Free Software Foundation: http://www.gnu.org

Open Source Initiative: http://www.opensource.org

Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org

Copyleft: http://www.gnu.org.copyleft/copyleft.html

Musicians Against Copyrighting of Samples : http://www.icomm.ca/macos 

 

CONSCIOUSNESS 

Center for Consciousness Studies: http://consciousness.arizona.edu

The Brain Project: www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/index.htm

*spark-online-exploring electronic consciousness:  http://www.spark-online.com

PSYCHE – an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness: http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au

Science and Consciousness Review: http://www.sci-con.org

 

 

 

 

 

Unit Schedule

 

  Weekly schedule:

 Note on Readings: Included in the weekly reading are several chapters from Murphie and Potts, Culture and Technology. These chapters indicate further important readings relevant to each week. Additional Readings are located in books held in the Library, or may be requested from the convenor.

 

WEEK 1:        INTRODUCTION

30 July         Required Reading: Murphie & Potts (2003) “Introduction”

Langdon Winner, “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” in Winner (1986)

 

WEEK 2:        THEORIES OF TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE

6 August         Murphie & Potts: Chapter 1 pp. 11-28

Ralph Schroeder, “The Consumption of Technology in Everyday Life” in Schroeder (2007)

Jill Lepore, “Our Own Devices”, The New Yorker 12 May 2008, pp. 118-122

Adam Thierer, “The Case for Internet Optimism, Part 1: Saving the Net from its Detractors” in Berin Szoka (ed) The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet TechFreedom 2011. (free download: http://nextdigitaldecade.com/read-book-now)

 

WEEK 3:        NETWORK CULTURE, SPACE AND TIME

13 August       Kazys Varnelis and Anne Friedberg, “Place: The Networking of Public Space” in Varnelis (ed) Networked Publics (2008)

Sherry Turkle, “Always On” from Alone Together (2011)

Lyn Gorman and David McLean, “The Rise of New Media” from Media and Society into the 21st Century (2009)

Graham Meikle and Sherman Young, 'Time, Space and Convergent Media' from Media Convergence (2012)

 

WEEK 4:        TECHNOLOGY, ART & CULTURE

20 August       Murphie & Potts, Chapter 2 pp. 39-62 

F.T. Marinetti, “Futurist Manifestoes” in J. C. Taylor, Futurism New York: Museum of Modern Art (1961)

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in Benjamin (1970)

 

WEEK 5:        DIGITAL AESTHETICS: CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE

27 August       Murphie & Potts: Chapter 3 pp. 73-94, Chapter 2 pp. 63-65

Michael Rush, “The Digital in Art” in New Media in Art (2005)

Darren Tofts, “What is Media Art?” in Interzone (2005)

Additional Readings: Thom Holmes, excerpts from Electronic and Experimental Music (2002)

Caleb Kelly, “Introduction: Cracked Media” in Cracked Media (2009)

Charlie Gere, “Digital Resistances” from Digital Culture (2008)

 

WEEK 6:        SCIENCE FICTION 1

3 September    Murphie & Potts: Chapter 4 pp. 95-109

 

WEEK 7:        SCIENCE FICTION 2        

10 September  Murphie & Potts Chapter 4 pp. 109-114

J.G. Ballard, “Introduction to Crash” (1975)

 Additional Readings: Scott Bukatman, “Replicants and Mental Life” (Blade Runner) in Bukatman (1997)

 Joshua Clover, “Edge of the Construct” (The Matrix) in Clover (2004)

 Charlie Gere, “Cyberpunk” from Digital Culture (2008)

 

MID-SEMESTER BREAK 

 WEEK 8:        PUBLIC HOLIDAY           

1 October

 

WEEK 9         THE E-READER AND THE BOOK

8 October      Sherman Young, “It’s Not the Reader”, Meanjin Vol 69 No 2 2010

John Potts, “Book Doomsday: The March of Progress and the Fate of the Book”, Meanjin Vol 69 No 3 2010

Matthew Asprey, “Print-on-Demand and the Future of Independent Publishing”, PopMatters July 2011

Nicholas Carr, "The Bookless Library" in John Brockman (ed) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (New York: Harper 2012)

 

 WEEK 10       AUTHORSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

15 October      Murphie & Potts Chapter 3 pp. 66-73

Martha Woodmansee, “On the Author Effect: Recovering Collectivity” in Woodmansee & Jaszi (1994)

Cory Doctorow, “Giving it Away” and “How Copyright Broke” in Content (2008)

Steve Collins, “Kookaburra v. Down Under: It’s Just Overkill” in Scan Online Journal of Media Arts Culture Vol 7 No 1 2010

Additional Readings: Terry Flew, “Internet Law and Policy” from New Media: An Introduction (2005)

Joanna Demers, “Music as Intellectual Property” in Steal This Music (2006)

 

WEEK 11       PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY

22 October      Michael Zimmer, “Privacy Protection in the Next Digital Decade: ‘Trading Up’ or a ‘Race to the Bottom’?” in Szoka (ed) The Next Digital Decade (2011)

John E. McGrath, “Encountering Surveillance” from Loving Big Brother (2004)

Daniel Solove, “Privacy in an Overexposed World” in Solove (2007)

Additional Readings: Wolfgang Ernst, “Beyond the Rhetoric of Panopticism: Surveillance as Cybernetics” in Levin, Frohne and Weibel (eds) CTRL Space: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother (2002)

Winifred Pauleit, “Video Surveillance and Postmodern Subjects” in Levin, Frohne and Weibel (eds) CTRL Space (2002)

 

WEEK 12:      TECHNOLOGY AND CONSCIOUSNESS

29 October  Murphie & Potts Chapter 6 pp. 142-162

John Horgan, “The Consciousness Conundrum” from The Undiscovered Mind (1999)

Nicholas Carr, “The Juggler’s Brain” from The Shallows (2010)

Douglas Rushkoff, "The Internet Makes Me Think in the Present Tense" in John Brockman (ed) Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think? (New York: Harper 2012) 

Additional Reading: Sian Ede, “Sculpted by the World: Art and Some Concepts from Contemporary Consciousness Studies” from Art & Science (2005)  

 

WEEK 13       TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE

5 November    Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding, “Introduction: Histories of the Future” in Rosenberg and Harding (eds) (2005)

Cory Doctorow, “The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futuristic Delights” from Content (2008)

                       

 

 

 

 

Policies and Procedures

Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central. Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:

Academic Honesty Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html

Assessment Policy  http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/assessment/policy.html

Grade Appeal Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/gradeappeal/policy.html

Special Consideration Policy http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html

In addition, a number of other policies can be found in the Learning and Teaching Category of Policy Central.

 

  Assignment submission

 

Bar-coded Arts Coversheet

Written work must be submitted through the Arts Student Centre (via the appropriate assignment box) on Level 1, W6A (for internal students) or via COE (for external students). Internal students must print and attach a completed coversheet to all submitted work. A personalised assignment coversheet is generated from the student section of the Faculty of Arts website at:

http://www.arts.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate/admin_central/coversheet.

 

Please provide your student details and click the Get my assignment coversheet button to generate your personalised assignment cover sheet. No other coversheets will be provided by the Faculty.

 

Return of marked work

Marked work will be returned to students via tutorials or lectures. Residuals will be available for collection from the Arts Student Centre (W6A Foyer).

 

  Examination

 

There is no exam in this unit.

 

  Extensions and special consideration

 

Please note that late assignments will not be accepted without a doctor's certificate or other written evidence of serious misadventure. Students will lose 5% of their marks from their assignment for each day it is late, unless they have organised an extension of time with their lecturer before hand. Students should apply for special consideration if there are circumstances that they feel may affect overall performance in the course.

 

Special Consideration Policy

http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html

 

Applying for Special Consideration

Students applying for Special Consideration circumstances of three (3) consecutive days duration, within a study period, and/or prevent completion of a formal examination must submit an on-line application with the Faculty of Arts.  For an application to be valid, it must include a completed Application for Special Consideration form and all supporting documentation. 

 

The on-line Special Consideration application is found at:  http://www.arts.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate/admin_central/special_consideration.

 

  University policy on grading

 

University Grading Policy

http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/grading/policy.html

 

The grade a student receives will signify their overall performance in meeting the learning outcomes of a unit of study. Grades will not be awarded by reference to the achievement of other students nor allocated to fit a predetermined distribution. In determining a grade, due weight will be given to the learning outcomes and level of a unit (ie 100, 200, 300, 800 etc). Graded units will use the following grades:

 

 

 

HD       High Distinction         85-100

D         Distinction                  75-84

Cr        Credit                          65-74

P          Pass                            50-64

F          Fail                                0-49

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Academic honesty

 

Academic honesty is an integral part of the core values and principles contained in the Macquarie University Ethics Statement . Its fundamental principle is that all staff and students act with integrity in the creation, development, application and use of ideas and information. This means that:

  • All academic work claimed as original is the work of the author making the claim.
  • All academic collaborations are acknowledged.
  • Academic work is not falsified in any way
  • When the ideas of others are used, these ideas are acknowledged appropriately.

The link below has more details about the policy, procedure and schedule of penalties that will apply to breaches of the Academic Honesty policy.

 

Academic Honesty Policy

http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html

Student Support

Macquarie University provides a range of Academic Student Support Services. Details of these services can be accessed at: http://students.mq.edu.au/support/.

UniWISE provides:

  • Online learning resources and academic skills workshops http://www.mq.edu.au/learning_skills/
  • Personal assistance with your learning & study related questions.
  • The Learning Help Desk is located in the Library foyer (level 2).
  • Online and on-campus orientation events run by Mentors@Macquarie.

 

  Student support services

 

Macquarie University provides a range of Student Support Services. Details of these services can accessed at:

http://www.deanofstudents.mq.edu.au/ or http://www.campuslife.mq.edu.au/campuswellbeing

Student Services and Support

Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Support Unit who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.

Student Enquiries

Details of these services can be accessed at http://www.student.mq.edu.au/ses/.

 

Arts Student Centre

Phone:

+61 2 9850 6783

Email:

artsenquiries@mq.edu.au

Office:

W6A/Foyer

 

Centre staff are there to smooth the way into university life; answer questions; give informed advice; provide a sympathetic ear; de-mystify uni ways and procedures. 

 

The Faculty Assessment Coversheet and Arts on-line Submissions are located at:

www.arts.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate

 

 

IT Help

If you wish to receive IT help, we would be glad to assist you at http://informatics.mq.edu.au/help/. 

When using the university's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students and it outlines what can be done.

Graduate Capabilities

Capable of Professional and Personal Judgement and Initiative

We want our graduates to have emotional intelligence and sound interpersonal skills and to demonstrate discernment and common sense in their professional and personal judgement. They will exercise initiative as needed. They will be capable of risk assessment, and be able to handle ambiguity and complexity, enabling them to be adaptable in diverse and changing environments.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment tasks

  • Tutorial presentation
  • Class participation

Commitment to Continuous Learning

Our graduates will have enquiring minds and a literate curiosity which will lead them to pursue knowledge for its own sake. They will continue to pursue learning in their careers and as they participate in the world. They will be capable of reflecting on their experiences and relationships with others and the environment, learning from them, and growing - personally, professionally and socially.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment tasks

  • Tutorial presentation
  • Class participation

Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills

Our graduates will take with them the intellectual development, depth and breadth of knowledge, scholarly understanding, and specific subject content in their chosen fields to make them competent and confident in their subject or profession. They will be able to demonstrate, where relevant, professional technical competence and meet professional standards. They will be able to articulate the structure of knowledge of their discipline, be able to adapt discipline-specific knowledge to novel situations, and be able to contribute from their discipline to inter-disciplinary solutions to problems.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics

Assessment tasks

  • Short essay
  • Tutorial presentation
  • Class participation
  • Major essay

Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking

We want our graduates to be capable of reasoning, questioning and analysing, and to integrate and synthesise learning and knowledge from a range of sources and environments; to be able to critique constraints, assumptions and limitations; to be able to think independently and systemically in relation to scholarly activity, in the workplace, and in the world. We want them to have a level of scientific and information technology literacy.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment tasks

  • Short essay
  • Tutorial presentation
  • Class participation
  • Major essay

Problem Solving and Research Capability

Our graduates should be capable of researching; of analysing, and interpreting and assessing data and information in various forms; of drawing connections across fields of knowledge; and they should be able to relate their knowledge to complex situations at work or in the world, in order to diagnose and solve problems. We want them to have the confidence to take the initiative in doing so, within an awareness of their own limitations.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Understanding of theories of technology and society
  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment tasks

  • Short essay
  • Major essay

Creative and Innovative

Our graduates will also be capable of creative thinking and of creating knowledge. They will be imaginative and open to experience and capable of innovation at work and in the community. We want them to be engaged in applying their critical, creative thinking.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment tasks

  • Tutorial presentation
  • Major essay

Effective Communication

We want to develop in our students the ability to communicate and convey their views in forms effective with different audiences. We want our graduates to take with them the capability to read, listen, question, gather and evaluate information resources in a variety of formats, assess, write clearly, speak effectively, and to use visual communication and communication technologies as appropriate.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcomes

  • Knowledge of the history of art and technology
  • An appreciation of the relationship between digital networked technology and culture
  • Skills to assess contemporary art, media and network culture
  • The ability to relate ideas and evaluate concepts in aesthetics
  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment tasks

  • Tutorial presentation
  • Class participation

Engaged and Ethical Local and Global citizens

As local citizens our graduates will be aware of indigenous perspectives and of the nation's historical context. They will be engaged with the challenges of contemporary society and with knowledge and ideas. We want our graduates to have respect for diversity, to be open-minded, sensitive to others and inclusive, and to be open to other cultures and perspectives: they should have a level of cultural literacy. Our graduates should be aware of disadvantage and social justice, and be willing to participate to help create a wiser and better society.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Learning outcome

  • A range of critical and creative thinking attributes

Assessment task

  • Class participation

Socially and Environmentally Active and Responsible

We want our graduates to be aware of and have respect for self and others; to be able to work with others as a leader and a team player; to have a sense of connectedness with others and country; and to have a sense of mutual obligation. Our graduates should be informed and active participants in moving society towards sustainability.

This graduate capability is supported by:

Assessment tasks

  • Class participation
  • Major essay

Classes

 

  Classes

 

For lecture times and classrooms please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. This website will display update information on your classes and classroom locations.

 

 

  On-Campus Sessions

 

 

Date

Time

Location

Lecture

Monday

10am

Y3A T1

 

 

 

Unit requirements and expectations

 

On completion of this unit, students will be able to analyse the relationship between technology and culture in a number of ways. They will have the means of critically interpreting the role of technologies in contemporary society. Students will have a clear understanding of the implications of contemporary communications technology to cultural activity, including the use of digital networked technology in social media. Students will be able to apply their theoretical understanding to the representation of technology in art and culture.