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COMM323 Digital Media and Interactive Entertainment

Updated: 24 August 2011
Credit Points 6
Offering Not offered in 2012
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites 12cp
Co-requisites None
Restrictions COMM123 or COMM223 or COMM423 or COMM523
Notes

Offered in odd numbered years
Combined Units COMM523 - Digital Media and Interactive Entertainment
Coordinator(s) Cate Dowd (cdowd2@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit explores today's new communications technologies, with an emphasis on internet and digital media. It provides an experiental knowledge of the implications of digital platforms, software and interactivity for communication and communications research. This knowledge is developed through local and global case studies that examine the industrial, community, and government uses of digital media and engages with the debates about their social and cultural impact.
Materials Text information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. understand the directions of current developments in interactive communication techniques and technologies;
  2. comprehend and apply theoretical approaches to digital media;
  3. apply techniques and methods to enable them to conduct effective research online and offline; and
  4. recognise diverse expressions of culture and identity in digital media.

Graduate Attributes (GA)
Attribute Taught Assessed Practised
1 Knowledge of a Discipline
This unit provides students with the means to understand ideas and methods used in the disciplinary field of media and communications to explore contemporary communication technologies and issues relating to the sociocultural and global context of their development. 		True True True
2 Communication Skills
The unit develops writing and related communication skills relevant to the changing environment of digital communications and the study of contemporary communications theories and techniques. 		True True True
3 Global Perspectives
The unit examines the production and use of interactive digital entertainment by global organisations, structures and communications. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
Information literacies are at the heart of this unit. The unit deals with the technological challenges to orthodox notions of literacy. 		True True True
5 Life-Long Learning
By systematically analysing the construction and use of digital media products and studying successive media techniques and technologies, the unit fosters students' innovative reasoning faculties. 		True
6 Problem Solving
The unit applies logical, critical and creative thinking to new media processes and products. These modes of thinking are explicitly taught and their application is demanded in the students' assessments. 		True True True
7 Social Responsibility
The unit considers the issues of ethical action and social responsibility in the use of communication technologies. 		True True
8 Team Work
The social relationships negotiated in new media practices are analysed. 		True
   

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