Course Title: Integrated Media 2

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Integrated Media 2

Credit Points: 12

Course Coordinator: Marius Foley

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1252

Course Coordinator Email:marius.foley@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 9.5.71

Course Coordinator Availability: by email appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

COMM2251 Integrated Media 1

Course Description

Integrated Media Two explores participatory storytelling and the place of social media and the emerging role of the social media producer within traditional media industries. You will create participatory media objects using an experimental, explorative and collaborative approach to media creation and production. These approaches will be reinforced through the central learning activities.

You are expected to develop sophisticated ideas about the nexus between ‘content and ‘medium’ and ‘producer and user’. This will be achieved through both analysing and producing participatory media stories native to the web 2.0 environment. In this way, the course embeds competencies necessary for advanced media projects undertaken in third year.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

You are expected to learn:

• About the affordances of different media technologies
• Strategies for resolving technical questions and problems
• Collaboration skills
• Research skills
• Roles, use, and possibilities of emerging forms of media
• Creative critical thinking and its application to specific problems
• A more conceptual approach to content creation. These will be specifically realised as:
• engaging with the affordances of different media technologies
• producing media that is published in various networked environments

Overview of Learning Activities

Over the semester, you will work on different phases of a single project in small groups. Various aspects of that project will be the subject of group and individual reflection. A variety of conceptual and technical exercises will be undertaken in lab-based settings. Conceptual and production aspects will be introduced in lectures.

Overview of Learning Resources

The ‘ bonza’ lab and the Macintosh lab in building 9 will have the software needed for this course. You are expected to use these facilities on a regular and consistent basis throughout the course. Some materials will be supplied via Blackboard or via teaching blogs.

Overview of Assessment

Assessment will comprise a combination of tutor, peer and self-assessment modes. You will receive information and guidance on peer and self-assessment processes.