Media Comparison and Intermediality (ENG)

Course goals

After successful completion of the course, the student has gained:

• knowledge of and insight into discourses concerning media comparison and intermediality based on a number of core concepts and key themes from the course.

After successful completion of the course the student can:

• apply acquired knowledge and insight in the analysis of (the relations between) concrete media utterances.
• identify, describe, and compare the uniqueness and characteristics of concrete media instances in relation to the socio-historical and technological contexts in which they occur.
• systematically search, select, and organize sources using different strategies and the online source management programme Zotero. 
• accurately prepare sources citations of various concrete media and art objects according to the rules of The Chicago Manual of Style. 

Content

Media do not exist in isolation. They function in a network, creating and maintaining all sorts of relations with other media. This is all the more true for our contemporary, mediatized culture and society. This course introduces you to seminal theoretical discourses on the (inter)relations between media and arts, focusing on how these relations are affected by the socio-historical and technological contexts in which different media interact. We will address some of the main theoretical concepts that have been developed to distinguish, compare, and analyze differents kinds of arts and media relations. How are media combined or merged? How can the content or characteristics of media be transferred from one medium to another? How do media refer to and  (re-)mediate one another?  How do we define medium specificity and the borders or differences between media? We will not only focus on intermedial concepts but will also address some important recurring themes in academic discussions on media relations and mediation - from early modernist debates relating to the avant-gardes in the arts, to contemporary ones about platformization and computational media. These themes, topics and concepts are presented in the reading material for this course and will be discussed and elaborated upon in the lectures and seminars. Additionally, the course will introduce you to the Library Guide Media Studies. Through a series of modules this step by step LibGuide teaches you how to systematically search for academic literature and manage the results. 

This course is part of Core Profile 1 of the BA Media and Culture in English. This course replaces the former ME2V18001.

Additional information

This course is part of Core Profile 1 of the BA Media and Culture in English.

Note: This is the course code to register for a workgroup in English.
Let op: Dit is de cursuscode voor een Engelstalige werkgroep

Priority rules
This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you
- are a student in the BA Media and Culture and this course is part of your core profile (basispakket)
- are an exchange student and meet the course’s entry requirements
In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list.

A Maximum of 8 exchange students will be admitted to this course.

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September