Cyberspace, Media and Interaction - 2nd semester
Code
722011034
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Graça Rocha Simões
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The study of cybercommunication and cyberesperience is the focus of this seminar, based upon the following key concepts: interface, interaction, interactivity and (tele)presence. These concepts will be developed taking in mind a framework where efective contexts and interactional practices (situated action) are an indispensable dimension.
It is expected that students acquire competences for the development of research work about communicaional behaviours on cyberspace with the explicit use and enhacement of the key concepts.
Prerequisites
n.a.
Subject matter
1. Framework for the analysis of cybermediated interaction and experience: user, computer/networks, the other/the world. Space, place, \"the world\".”
2. Interaction and cyberinteraction
3. Interface and design: towards a theory of interfaces
4.. Interactivity and (tele)presence. Co-presence and social presence
5. Examples of case studies/yibercontexts: locative media, electonic games,e-commerce, interaction with robots and other artifical agents, e-learning, social networks.
Bibliography
Coyne, Richard (1995), Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age. Cambridge(MA): The MIT Press.
Farman, J, The Materiality of Locative Media: On the Invisible Infrastructure of Mobile Networks. Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries. Ed. Andrew Herman. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Kiousis, Spiro. (2002). Interactivity: a concept explication. New Media & Society, Vol. 4, September, pp. 355-383.
Kiran, Asle (2012). \"Technological Presence: Actuality and Potentiality in Subject Constitution\". A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences.
Lee, K.M. (2004).Presence, Explicated. Communication Theory, 14(1), 27-50.
Lombard, Matthew & Ditton, Theresa (1997). At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence.
Rafaeli, S. and Sudweeks, F. (1997), Networked Interactivity. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 2: 0.
Teaching method
Theoretical framework and conceptual aspects (60%) and analysis of cibermediated experiences (40%).
Classes will balance the theoretical exposition by the teacher and the active and critical participation by students, either individually either in groups based on assignments required.
In class teaching.
Evaluation method
40% in class evaluation; 60% final writen individual assignment
-In class evaluation is based on active and critical contibutions of students supported by three short individual writen assignments to be presented and discussed in class (40%), on of them about the project of the final assignment.
- Final individual writen assignment (5000 words) to be presented and discussed in class (60%).