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This occurrence is not offered in 2014
This courses challenges students to apply humanistic methods to the burgeoning field of New Media and digital technologies. It explains the underlying technologies and business processes that power contemporary digital culture, and provides introductory overviews of subjects as varied as cybernetics, network theory, digital hyper-reality, social media, knowledge economies, piracy and the ethics of closed and open systems. While placing an emphasis on the engineered nature of new media, the course doesn't teach programming, instead focusing on history, criticism and critique.
Modernity is making way for digital modernity, an era where the humanities are beginning to be defined by new media forms. This course encourages students to consider the connections between the Humanities and new forms of digital expression and community, questioning how radical recent changes have been and what impact they are having on our traditions. It will also provide a broad introduction to the digital humanities, complementing DIGI401: Introduction to Digital Humanities, and drawing on tools and methods used in a variety of disciplines. No technical skills are required. The course encourages a critical assessment of new media based on knowledge of its engineered nature and relationship to society, making it useful for students interested in a very wide range of graduate careers. It is positioned at the cutting-edge of Humanities scholarship, investigating new forms of scholarship and the mechanisms driving them.
Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator.
James Smithies
Domestic fee $1,625.00
International Postgraduate fees
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Humanities .