About the course

This course is offered as part of a programme:

Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year) Media and Communication Studies: Culture, Collaborative Media, and Creative Industries, Master's programme (Two-Year)

Course content

Syllabus autumn 2023

Earlier syllabuses

Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

30 credits on advanced level in Media- and Communication Studies, Communication for Development or other Social Science discipline + English B.

Course literature

Andrejevic M (2014) The big data divide. International Journal of Communication 8(1): 1673–1689. (p 16)

Arsenault, A. (2017) The datafication of media: Big data and the media industries. International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, Vol. 13 Issue 1/2, p7-24. (17 p)

boyd danah and Crawford K (2012) Critical Questions for Big Data. Information, Communication & Society 15(5): 662–679. (p. 15)

Hintz, A., Dencik, L. and Wahl-Jorgensen, K. (2018). Digital citizenship in a datafied society. Cambridge: Polity Press. (p. 180) (available as e-book)

Kirk, Andy (2016) Data Visualisation. A Handbook for Data driven Design. London et al: Sage. (p. 337)

van Dijck J (2014) Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big data between scientific paradigm and ideology. Surveillance and Society 12(2): 197–208. (p. 11)

Schäfer and Es (2017) The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data. Amsterdam University Press

(272 p) (available as e-book)

Course evaluation

The University provides all students who are participating in, or have completed, a course to express their experiences and views on the course through a course evaluation which is organized at the end of the course. The university will collate the course evaluations and provide information about their results and any actions prompted by them. The results shall be made available to the students. (HF 1:14).

Contact

For more information about the education:

K3student@mau.se

This education is provided by

Faculty of Culture and Society

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School of Arts and Communication

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