Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- specific media that engages with digital and literary cultures
- how literature forms narratives and myths influencing the perception of digital culture
- literary debates in relationship to digital media technologies
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- critically analyse the aesthetic, economic, affective and poetic factors that give rise to digital culture
- evaluate the role of literary and textual objects in digital culture
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- navigate and analyse a range of digital media and platforms
- carry out independent research and analysis in a variety of forms
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
Wider reading or practice | 50 |
Independent Study | 10 |
Completion of assessment task | 30 |
Seminar | 20 |
Tutorial | 10 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
N. Katherine Hayles (1999). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. University of Chicago Press.
Zara Dinnen (2018). The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture.
Sadie Plant (1998). Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (2016). Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media.
Ruha Benjamin (2019). Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
Janet Abbate (1999). Inventing the Internet. MIT Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical commentary | 40% |
Final Assessment | 60% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written essay | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Final Assessment | 60% |
Critical commentary | 40% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External