The purpose of tutorials is for students to discuss the weekly topics and readings to enrich their understanding. All students are required to engage in tutorial discussion. This means arriving at tutorials having completed set readings and being prepared to discuss issues arising.

The format of tutorials is based around student-led discussions and activities. Your responses to your peers will form the basis of your engagement mark.

Attendance is not the same as engagement. Students receive no marks for simply attending tutorials.

Assessment criteria:

• Engagement with the readings
• Engagement with lecture material
• Ability to relate key theoretical ideas to previous readings and/or independent research
• Willingness to contribute to class discussion by asking relevant questions, answering other students questions, treating other students with respect and behaving appropriately (e.g. not talking whilst tutor or other students talking)

Students will undertake a timed multiple-choice quiz administered via iLearn. The content of the quiz will relate to readings, lectures, and tutorial discussions undertaken thus far in the unit, including the week 5 material. The quiz will be taken individually and will require students to be up-to-date on MAS240 material, including lectures and readings.

This assignment should be completed in a timely fashion and the quiz will close automatically at the stated deadline. Late attempts will only be allowed if special consideration has been granted.

Assessment criteria

• Number of multiple-choice questions answered correctly

Students will undertake a 2nd timed multiple-choice quiz administered via iLearn. The content of the quiz will relate to readings, lectures, and tutorial discussions undertaken between weeks 6-9 inclusive. The quiz will be taken individually and will require students to be up-to-date on MAS240 material, including lectures and readings.

This assignment should be completed in a timely fashion and the quiz will close automatically at the stated deadline. Late attempts will only be allowed if special consideration has been granted.

Assessment criteria

• Number of multiple-choice questions answered correctly

Students are required to submit a 2000 word essay on a topic of their choosing exploring a specific new media technology/platform/practice.

Students should select a new media technology/platform/practice and construct an academic argument around it. It needs to be a specific argument, that tells the reader something about the relationship between this new media technology/platform/practice and society more generally. Don't just give a technological description or history. For example the argument: 'Facebook has facilitated new forms of protest' would be a good topic, whereas a broad history of Facebook's technological development would fail.

The essay should do the following (it does not have to be in this order):

• Briefly describe the historical development of your new media technology/platform/practice in relation to your overall argument (Do not go into unnecessary detail, 1 paragraph should be enough for most technologies)
• Articulate a sophisticated academic argument about this new media technology/platform/practice
• Critically analyse the cultures that surround the technology/platform/practice and explain why they are important or significant
• Examine any conflicts and tensions that surround the technology/platform/practice
• State why it is important to understand this new media technology/platform/practice in this way

Essays must use at least one article from the reader, and at least two from your own research.

Essays must use media studies and/or cultural studies academic texts, and develop an argument in line with these approaches. If you are unsure what this means please ask your tutor.

Essays will be submitted, marked and returned electronically via iLearn.

Assessment Criteria

• Understanding of new media technology: Do you demonstrate a sophisticated academic understanding of key contexts of, and cultures surrounding, chosen new media technology

• Argument: Was all academic work used directly relevant and appropriate to argument and engaged with in a sophisticated manner.

• Engagement with appropriate academic material: Do you present a sophisticated integration of the case-study with relevant theory. Have you identified and made use of appropriate resources beyond those provided in the unit reader? (You must use at least one article from the reader, and at least two from your own research)

• Referencing: Do you correctly reference appropriate academic sources with no formatting errors; have you built on enough sources

• Style and presentation: Is your essay clearly written and presented

Students are required to plan and develop a Website. Your Website can be about anything but(!) before you start, make sure to read the below criteria very carefully because you can't simply take existing content from elsewhere online (i.e. you can't copy and paste the text from Wikipedia and take images from the results of a Google image search). You are expected to write your own content, and any images/video/audio used must be either your own or free from copyright restrictions.

All Websites must satisfy the following criteria:

• Minimum of four (4) HTML pages of content (including a home page).
• Home page must be saved as index.html (i.e. Sites/mas240/index.html).
• Original content (see below for guidelines on using non-original content). Content is the most important part of a website, it’s what your user comes to read/see/listen to. Think carefully about your content: How will you present it? How will you structure it? Is it evident to the reader what the purpose of the site is? How will you guide the reader through the content/narrative? Does it flow? Does it make sense? How can you use audiovisual works, links and embeddable media to make your content more interesting and engaging? How can the design of your website relate to and reflect the content?
• Non-original content covers quoted text, images, audiovisuals works, and code.
  • Quoted text can be attributed to its original author by providing an appropriate visible reference (as you would with an essay) and providing a hyperlink to the source.
  • Images should only be used if a) they are your images, b) you have explicit permission from the copyright owner, or c) the images are licensed for re-use, for example, Creative Commons. Non-original images should be referenced by providing a caption with attribution and source details (for example, if using a Creative Commons licensed image from Flickr, provide the photographer’s name and a link to the original). Images found via Google searches must be credited to the source/creator of the media, not the search engine. Note: Images found in Google searches are often copyrighted and not free to re-use.
  • Audiovisual works such as video and audio files should be only be used if a) they are your works, b) you have explicit permission from the copyright owner, or c) the works are licensed for re-use, for example, Creative Commons or embeddable media from platforms such as YouTube or Soundcloud.
  • Borrowed code (including any tutorial/example code beyond that supplied in unit materials) should be referenced in your own code using comment tags. If you’re unsure how to do this, please ask your tutor.
• Templates such as Bootstrap or W3.css are not to be used. This assignment is for you to demonstrate your ability to structure HTML documents and style them with CSS.
• A single CSS document linked to from all HTML documents.
• Websites should draw on skills developed during the unit.
• Websites should use current approaches to design as taught in the unit. Table-based design and deprecated XHTML4 tags should not be used. Web sites should use current and valid HTML5 code.
• Images should be resized and optimised for the Web.
• Individual pages should utilise titles using the <title></title> tag.

Websites will be submitted during students’ timetabled classes in week 13.  It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their website is accessible via the public link on the Media Server (step-by-step instruction on submission will be delivered in week 13). Any sites not submitted or incomplete by the end of the class will be considered a late submission. Website content is expected to be completed by the start of class, and the week 13 class should be spent ensuring that work is submitted correctly.