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:
- how literature forms narratives and myths influencing the perception of digital culture
- specific media that engages with digital and literary cultures
- 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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Independent Study | 10 |
Tutorial | 10 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
Wider reading or practice | 50 |
Completion of assessment task | 30 |
Seminar | 20 |
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.
Sadie Plant (1998). Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture.
Janet Abbate (1999). Inventing the Internet. MIT Press.
Ruha Benjamin (2019). Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (2016). Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media.
Zara Dinnen (2018). The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture.
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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Critical commentary | 40% |
Final Assessment | 60% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External