ARTS2090 - Publics and Publishing in Transition
Course Resources
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of the Arts and Media
Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
Subject Area: Media, Culture and Technology
Publishing practices are deeply involved in the constitution of social life, because of the kind of publics they help bring into being. This course examines the different formations of "publics" in relation to different publishing technologies and practices. Students will examine the history and theory of this relationship, and then explore the key influence of data in the contemporary transformation of this relationship. New uses of data make print, images and other media elements more dynamic, and more open to combination, across increasingly varied publishing platforms. This makes for a more complex and flexible series of publics—in concept and reality—from the global to the "hyperlocal", with possibilities of both enhanced control and participation. Topics examined will include: publishing theory, history and cultures; changing archives; the shifting commons; new forms of expression such as visualization; participation, distribution and aggregation via new platforms such as eReaders and social media.
