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This course will allow participants to analyse how the digital turn has affected creative practice, reuse, and reception across a range of multimedia creative outputs. In it, we will examine various multimedia texts in order to illuminate how new forms of creativity are enabled and influenced by the shifting legal, social and technological contexts of digital media. Students will have the opportunity to create a small digital media text, and to reflect upon how their own work fits into key critical frameworks for understanding digital creativity.

10x2hr integrated lecture/seminar sessions; over 10 weeks as scheduled in MyCampus. This is one of the Honours options in Information Studies and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus.

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into Digital Media and Information Studies, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation.

INFOSTUD4016 - Digital Creativity 

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The standard assessments for this course are: 

■ Essay (3,500 words) -70% 

■ Oral presentation (5-10 minutes) 30% 

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available: 

■ There are no alternatives to the Essay, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

■ Video recording as alternative to presentation.

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.  

This course aims to:

■ Critically evaluate a range of multimedia creative outputs in light of key academic readings.

■ Enhance students' knowledge of legal, ethical and practical frameworks that influence digital creativity.

■ Explore the extent to which the digital turn is disrupting working practices in the creative industries.

■ Examine how digital creative practices relate to wider social, economic, and theoretical contexts

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Define and explain key concepts in creativity and digital media.

■ Recognise how digital technologies challenge concepts of the personal archive, and the "archival".

■ Apply relevant critical and cultural theories to the creation and interpretation of digital media texts.

■ Develop, plan and pitch a creative project using a range of digital archival sources.

■ Critically appraise their own creative outputs through the application of key theoretical and practical concepts.