2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ARTF1052 Networks, Environments and Cultures

20 creditsClass Size: 70

Module manager: Dr Dibyadyuti Roy
Email: D.Roy1@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Beginning with the proliferation of technology following World War 2 and continuing up to the present, this module locates the interconnectedness of networks, its environments, and cultures as an analytic for understanding our contemporary world. Through analysing the social, political, and aesthetic implications of user-driven and algorithmically mediated networks, the module will address questions around identity formation, knowledge production and cultural institutions in the networked age.

Objectives

On this module, emphasis will be placed on the historical trajectory that leads to the emergence of the world wide web, internet cultures, and current new media platforms. You will be encouraged to explore the role of networks in amplifying/mitigating divide(s)—both analogue and digital—as well as the role of networks in shaping our cultural consciousness and memory.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, you will be able to:

1. Identify the theories and concepts underlying the social, cultural, and political aspects of the network.

2. Analyse the relationship between the network and culture, media and art.

3. Appraise the nature of networked environments and cultures as well as how identities are constructed and contested in such spaces

4. Demonstrate their competence and preparation for independent and innovative scholarly research through evaluating and drawing upon appropriate sources and conceptual frameworks

Skills Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

1. Communiation: Effectively communicate with diverse audiences through framing sustained and coherent arguments

2. Reflection: The ability to recognise and express knowledge and understanding and how it relates to personal experience and to demonstrate learning and growth from the experience.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	10	2.00	20.00
Fieldwork	1	6.00	6.00
Private study hours			174.00
Total Contact hours			26.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

As a part of the assessments for this module students will accomplish a diverse and contextually relevant series of assessments including a group project, as well a series of reflective logs/responses. The group project will emerge from the fieldwork that will be done as a part of the module where the students and the instructor will visit a local museum. Before this visit, the students will be assigned into groups and provided with a specific prompt for the group project. The students will develop the group project on an online platform and will convey their approach to the project through a 15-20 minute recorded (asynchronous) video that will accompany the final submission. Each group will receive feedback from the instructor along with peer feedback. Two reflective logs (500-750 words) will be due in Weeks 4 and 8 where in the student will apply the theoretical vocabulary and conceptual learning from the class to a networked artifact.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	Group Project developed on an online	50.00
Reflective log	Individual reflective logs/critical responses	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

As a part of the assessments for this module students will accomplish a diverse and contextually relevant series of assessments including a group project, as well a series of individual reflective logs/responses. The group project will emerge from the fieldwork that will be done as a part of the module where the students and the instructor will visit a local museum. Before this visit, the students will be assigned into groups and provided with a specific prompt for the group project. The students will develop the group project on an online platform and will convey their approach to the project through a 15-20 minute recorded (asynchronous) video that will accompany the final submission. Each group will receive feedback from the instructor along with peer feedback. Two reflective logs (500-750 words) will be due in Weeks 4 and 8 where in the student will apply the theoretical vocabulary and conceptual learning from the class to a networked artifact.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 13/05/2024 12:00:37

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