2009 Course Handbook
CUL307: Multimedia: The Poetics of New Media
This unit explores the different modes of meaning-making used in the production of multimedia texts, such as words, images, sound, movement, touch. We look at these different elements aesthetically, textually, philosophically, socially for how they come together to make a text and the kinds of meanings the subsequent text makes available to users. The unit will focus particularly on web sites, though other forms of multimedia will be discussed.
This unit is not about the technical practice of multimedia or web site design, but is an exploration of how those forms of communication operate in today's world -- the kinds of meanings they convey to users and how we as creators of texts (and meanings) communicate ourselves and our values to those users.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: |
D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
X1 - External study; Offered in the first half-year (On Campus session: No session) X2 - External study; Offered in the second half-year (On Campus session: No session) |
| Staff Contact: | Professor Anne Cranny-Francis |
| Prerequisites: | (40cp including CUL100 or CUL101) or (admission to GradCert/Dip in CCS and 6cp in 100-level CUL units) |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |
Timetable Information
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