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Instructors: Dr. Elisabeth Sommerlad
Event type:
online: Project seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
M2-MA PS
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 40
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Further information on topics and requirements will be provided during the kick-off event on February 16th, 12:15 (CET).
Please note: Participation in the preparatory session is mandatory. The seminar topics are also assigned here. Participants who register during the second or third registration phase will be informed separately and will be assigned a topic.
Contents:
In this seminar, we will deepen and apply the knowledge of media geography theory acquired in the winter semester. The seminar will focus on how geography and different media formats (e.g., film, photography, video games, graffiti and street art, sound and music, advertising, etc.) are related and can be researched. The topics are not only addressed in the seminar sessions – a major activity is the creation of a media geography blog in which participants work on different topics. The blog is also the graded project for successful module completion.
Course Objectives:
Students will deepen their knowledge of media geography and are able to apply this knowledge to topics relevant to research and everyday life contexts.
Students will learn about the connection between geographical perspectives and media forms as well as specific subdisciplines of media geography.
Students will implement these topics as a final project in an academic multimedia blog and gain skills in the field of academic blogging.
Requirements:
- Group work: Preparation of a media-geographical topic. This should not be a "classic" presentation, but the topic should be presented as, for example, a video, podcast, scrollytelling, or similar. The presentation is prepared in a way that it can be asynchronously reviewed by the course participants (prior to the discussion, see next point).
- Each group furthermore chooses a specific research paper on the subject. The study serves as discussion input for weekly meetings.
- Graded module performance is a blog that can be developed over the summer break (group or individual work is possible).
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