Dr Chris Moore (Lecturer Digital

Communications and Media Studies)

moorenet@gmail.com
BCM = Bachelor of
Communication and
Media Studies …
 Specialisations
Journalism

Advertising and Marketing

Screen Studies

Digital Communication
History of Media
and
Communication?

301
 History 2.0
a collaborative and user-generated
approach to the history media and
communication
 Subject Description
Through a study of user-generated cultures, this subject traces the
influence of media and communication forms throughout history: from
orality and print culture, to music, the screen and the web.
The subject examines communication technologies and media practices from
present, past and the near future. Uncovering the practices and trends of
regulation, Use, preservation and disposal of media and communication
technologies is central to the critical approach developed. The subject
concludes with a comprehensive and nuanced understanding our
contemporary digital media culture from the context of historical
antecedents.
 …
How important are Facebook profiles, YouTube
videos, Twitter 'tweet's and Wikipedia
corrections to us now, in 10 years time, in 100?

Will our use of media and communication

technologies have economic value or cultural
worth in the future and on what scale?

Do the environmental and social costs of

media and communications technologies
change over time?

 To what extent should attempts be made to

maintain and preserve existing technologies
and practices?
1) 27 July
Break it down…
Introduction No Tutorials Week 1

2) 3 August Assumptions of History - Tutorials Start

3) 10 August History 2.0

4) 17 August User-Generated Histories

5) 24 August Tag You're It

Annotated Bibliography due Tuesday August 25, by 3pm.

6) 31 August Googleocracy or Googlearchy?

7) 7 September Uncovered: Storming the Museum

8) 14 September The Public Domain: pirates and
plundering the past

9) 21 September Music History: The Amen Breakbeat

28 September MID SESSION RECESS

10) 6 October Punks, Pranks, Freaks and Geeks

11) 12 October Commons: past, present and future

12) 19 October Guest Lecture

13) 26 October Conclusion

14) 2 November STUDY RECESS

Collaborative History Project

Submission due Monday by 4pm.
 Channels of Communication

Lecture Delicious

Tutorial Google Docs

Consultation Wiki

Email YouTube

Twitter
Lecture
Tuesday
15:30-17:30
67-104
 Tutorials
Tuesday 5.30pm – 6.30pm rm 19.2003
Tuesday 6.30pm – 7.30pm rm 19.2003
Wednesday 3.30pm – 4.30pm rm 19.2003
Wednesday 4.30pm – 5.30pm rm 19.2001
Friday
9am – 12pm
19.2018
4221 5459
 chrism@uow.edu.au

moorenet@gmail.com
 twitter

DIGC_Dr_Moore
Delicious.com
Jo Guldi
BCM301_History2.0
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 YouTube
History2Point0

http://www.youtube.com/user/joguldi

http://www.youtube.com/user/mwesch

A vision of students today

History 2.0 refers to the accumulation of practices of media
and communication consumption that includes our
abandoned MySpace pages and forgotten logins to old
email accounts, as much to the performances we employ to
manage these technologies and our social connectivity via
them in our daily lives.

We make history in 2009.

Participatory
Networked
Geography
Consumption
madSkillz
History 2.0 is open source at its core, in that the

subject is collaborative, open and invites

participation. Students, will be contributing to this

subject through a variety of media and

communication forms.
 low cost to access
 support artistic freedom
 creative expression
 civic engagement
 open management of resources and
 promote the extension of networks of
social production.
Theory
Practice
Regulation
 Geography
People AND Places
consumption
Skills and Literacies
 Playful

experimental approach to problem solving

improvisational and explorative identity
Simulation

Digital Literacie
 Remix
Mashup
Sample
Copy
License
Give Credit

Digital Literacies
ssess environments
nd shift focus to
ddress critical
sues.
understand the meaningful use of tools to
expand mental capacities
 Collective Intelligence

pool resources, compare notes and coproduce common knowledge

employ critical evaluation and
understand the credibility of different
information sources

Judgment
Transmedia Navigation
Negotiation
History 2.0 A History of Users
 Assessments
On the books:
Reading Assignments (4x700 words) 30%
Mid-session test 20%
Critical Review (1,000 words) 10%
Essay (1,500-2,000 words) 20%
Summary test 20%
Annotated bibliography
(15x150 words), Week 5, 30%.

Group
Production/Presentation
Weeks 5-11, 30%.

Major Project
(2000 words), Week 12,
Tuesday October 20,
40%
15 websites
very brief annotation
(150 words)
‘theme’ of History 2.0
Week 5, Tuesday August 25, by 3pm
30%.
Group Production/Presentation
30%
 Major
Project
Presented Week 12,
Tuesday October 20
40%.
(2000 words individual report)
 Anti-Teaching
Commitment to focus less on trying to
convey good information and more on
attempting to inspire good questions.

Meaning and significance are assured

only when our learning fits with our
own motivations and grand narratives
(Wesch, 2008; 6)
 To Think About…

What histories interest you?

How can you apply the skills you

have, or need, to help you frame
good questions?

What does it mean to participate?

 Next week
Week 2 - Week beginning 3 August
Lecture: Assumptions of History 1.0
Guest starring Dr Kate Bowles
Historical chronologies and their political contexts.

Challenging the histories written by the winners

and re-examining teleological event histories and
their focus on the temporality of innovation and
political economy, rather than the spatiality of
diffusion.