Syllabus/achievement requirements

DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, UiO - AUTEMN TERM 2010

MEVIT 4130 Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in digital storytelling.

BOOKS

Hartley, John & Kelly McWilliam (eds.) (2009) STORY CIRCLE. Digital Storytelling Around the World. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 10-14, and 17, 18 and 20. In sum: 189 pages.

Lundby, Knut (ed.) (2008). Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories. Self-representations in New Media. New York: Peter Lang. 300 pages.

Gauntlett, David (2007). Creative Explorations: New approaches to identities and audiences. London: Routledge. 205 pages.

IN COMPENDIUM [to be bought from Akademika]

Page, Ruth E. (2012). ‘Stories and Social Media in Context’, chapter 1 (pp. 1-23) in: Stories and Social Media. Identities and Interaction. New York: Routledge. 23 pages.

Guignon, Charles (2004). Being Authentic. Chapter 8. Authenticity in Context. London: Routledge, pp.146-167. 22 pages.

Hull, Glynda (2006). Crafting an Agentive Self: Case Studies of Digital Storytelling. In: Research in the Teaching of English. Vol. 41(1): 43-81. 38 pages.

Papacharissi, Zizi (2011). Conclusion. A Networked Self. In: Zizi Papacharissi (ed.) A Networked Self. Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites. New York: Routlege, pp. 304-318. 15 pages.

Lankshear, Colin & Knobel, Michele (2006). New Literacies. Everyday Practices and Classroom Learning. Chapter 4: New Literacies as Remix. London: Open University Press, pp.105-136. 31 pages.

Lundby, Knut (2009). Introduction: 'Mediatization' as Key. In: Lundby, Knut (ed.) Mediatization. Concept, Changes, Consequences. New York: Peter Lang. 18 pages.

Hepp, Andreas (2009). Differentiation. Mediatization and Cultural Change. In: Lundby, Knut (ed.) Mediatization. Concept, Changes, Consequences. New York: Peter Lang. 19 pages.

TO BE DOWNLOADED BY THE STUDENT FROM x-port.uio.no

Ess, Charles (2010). The Embodied Self in a Digital Age. Possibilities, Risks, and Prospects for a Pluralistic (democratic/liberal) Future? In: Nordicom Review. Vol. 31(Special Issue); 105-118. 14 pages.

Hjarvard, Stig (2008). The Mediatization of Society. A Theory of the Media as Agents of Social and Cultural Change. In: Nordicom Review. Vol. 29(2); 105-134. 30 pages.

Livingstone, Sonia (2008). Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers’ use of social networking sites for intimacy, privacy and self-expression. In: New Media & Society. Vol. 10(3): 459-477. 19 pages.

boyd, danah m. and Ellison, Nicole B. (2008). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. In: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Vol. 13(1): Art. 11. 19 pages.

Hull, Glynda and Nelson, Mark Evan (2005). Locating the Semiotic Power of Multimodality. In: Written Communication 2005. Vol. 22(2): 224-261. 37 pages.

Tolson, Andrew (2001). ’Being yourself’: the pursuit of authentic celebrity. In: Discourse Studies 2001, Vol. 3(4): 443-457. London: Sage. 14 pages.

Total: 993 pages

Up to 30 percent of the above curriculum could be replaced with other relevant texts according to agreement with the responsible professor of the course.

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