Hello and Welcome to all those starting DIGC330 Digital Asia this semester!
Here is something to start thinking with.
Hello and Welcome to all those starting DIGC330 Digital Asia this semester!
Here is something to start thinking with.
DIGC330 will be back in Spring session 2015 at UoW.
UPDATE October 23, 2014
Updated details for the presentations in Week 12 and 13.
Week 12
Nathan, Anna, Caitlyn
Anthony, Gabi, Kristy
James, Lil
Jess, Nicole, Sarah
James, Paul, and Ed
Kaitlyn, Noeletta, and Matthew
Week 13
Paul, Ed, & James
Paul
Alexandra
Trent
Courtney
Mary
No set reading for Week 5 as I will be addressing Digital Artifacts (DAs) in lecture this week.
Tutorials will focus on individual research and autoethnographic investigation in the blogs this weeks.
Groups will have time to work on their collaborative projects in the lab seminars.
The Prezi for Week 5 is here
Welcome to Week 4 of DIGC330 for 2014.
This week Sukhmani has nominated a couple of background readings relevant to the case study on digital storytelling in the lecture time.
Tacchi, Jo A. (2009) ‘Finding a voice : digital storytelling as participatory development in Southeast Asia’. In Hartley, John & McWilliam, Kelly (Eds.) Story circle : digital storytelling around the world. Wiley-Blackwell.
Russo, A., & Watkins, J. (2005, December 31). Digital Cultural Communication: Enabling newmedia and co- creation in Asia. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT [Online], 1(4). Available: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=107.
Week 4 Power Point slides – DIGC330_Week4
Students will be blogging on their independent research projects this week and using some of lab time to plan and schedule the group project research and production for the following six weeks.
Individual Blogging Task for Week 4
The Prezi for Week Three is here.
We will discuss your autoethnographic inquires and start to consider ways of using digital artefacts to present your findings.
The reading for Week Three is:
Denzin, Norman K 2003, Performing [Auto] Ethnography Politically,The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 25:257–278 and is available here.
We had some technical difficulties with the audio in the lecture again this week and I’ve added audio files of the lectures in weeks one and two to the subject Moodle site.
I’ve also added the template for part one of the blog posts to Moodle, you can use this document to back up the text from your weekly posts and comments.
DIGC330 – Digital Asia
This is an undergraduate course at the University of Wollongong for students in the Bachelor of Communication and Media studies. More information can be found here.
Subject Description
This subject introduces students to the evolution of Asian digital media and communication, as well as the significance of transnational and diasporic digital Asia in the Australian context. Case studies may include the development of mobile telephony, social media, digital gaming, online shopping and networked activism in East, South and Southeast Asia, and diasporic media and fan consumption in Australia. Students will learn to locate digital Asia within historical and cultural contexts as well as current theoretical, industry and policy debates.
Subject Objectives
On successful completion of the subject, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of issues concerning the production, consumption and circulation of Asian digital media. 2. Demonstrate an ability to communicate using digital technologies. 3. Demonstrate an ability to respond to a brief and write a project proposal. 4. Demonstrate an ability to independently research an aspect of Asian digital media and produce work (written or creative) about it.
Assessment Structure
1. Blog posts (3000 words) (30%) 2. Group project (1000 words) (30%) 3. Major essay (2000 words) (40%) OR Digital work and reflective analysis (2000 words equivalent) (40%)