ZURb1267 Cyberculture

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jakub Macek, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Mgr. Boris Rafailov, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Prerequisites
Ability to read texts in English.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The main objective is to deliver an introduction to new media studies, to teach the students about technological and socio-cultural history of ICT and to sum up the early academic discussion on the social and cultural aspects of ICT.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course student will be acquainted with:
- Cultural history of computer and network technologies from 1960s to 1990s.
- Main concepts of cyberculture (Lévy, Morse, Manovich, Escobar, Hakken).
- The main areas of the literary and social science reflection of new media (cyberpunk, embodiment and identity, community and public, power and ideology, inequality and technologies) and related meritorious works (Gibson, Stephenson, Harraway, Rheingold, Barlow, Negroponte, Bey, Kroker and Weinstein et al.).
Syllabus
  • - Synthetic Pleasures – screening of a document about the „new frontier“.
  • - Language of cybernetics as a cultural power.
  • - Society / Culure / Technology.
  • - Marshall McLuhan's technodeterminism.
  • - Concepts of cyberculture.
  • - Origins and development of ICT and origins of technological subcultures; 1940s-1990s.
  • - Proliferation of ICT in 1980s and 1990s - technopopcultuer - new technologies as a part of cultural and social mainstream.
  • - Cybercultura discourses and their impacts.
  • - Resume of key concepts.
Literature
  • MACEK, Jakub. Tělesnost a kyberkultura (Embodiment and Cyberculture). Host - Revue pro média 05. Brno: Spolek přátel pro vydávání Hosta, 2003, No 5, p. 2-9, 10 pp. ISSN 1211-9938. Plný text článku. info
  • LÉVY, Pierre P. Kyberkultura : zpráva pro Radu Evropy v rámci projektu "Nové technologie: kulturní spolupráce a komunikace". Translated by Martin Kašpar - Anna Pravdová. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Univerzita Karlova, 2000, 229 s. ISBN 8024601095. info
  • HAYLES, Katherine. How we became posthuman : virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999, xiv, 350. ISBN 0226321452. info
  • LEARY, Timothy. Chaos a kyberkultura : Chaos & Cyber culture (Orig.). Edited by Michael Horowitz, Translated by Alexander Neuman. Praha: MAŤA, 1997, 371 s. : i. ISBN 80-86013-23-5. info
Teaching methods
Lecture
Assessment methods
Written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024.
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