Culture and Digital Media
Code: ΕΠ 687
Semester: 6, 8
ECTS: 6
Course Instructor: Ioulia Pentazou
COURSE DESCRIPTION
We participate daily in systems that organize what we see, what is valued, what becomes a trend, and what is considered “normal.” Platforms, algorithms, and artificial intelligence, together with those of us who use them, co-shape the ways in which meaning and value are produced.
The course explores contemporary digital culture not as technology, but as a process of meaning-making in the present. Starting from everyday digital practices, it raises questions such as:
- Where and how does cultural content circulate today?
- How and why does something become visible or remain on the margins?
- How does artificial intelligence affect the aesthetics and content of our culture?
- Why does the past return as a trend and “sell”?
- Ultimately, who produces meaning in digital culture, and in what ways?
The course combines the study of selected theoretical texts with short applied exercises based on the observation, analysis, and critical examination of contemporary digital cultural practices.
SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Μ. Κοκκώνης, Γρ. Πασχαλίδης, Φ. Μπαντιμαρούδης (επιμ.), Ψηφιακά μέσα. Ο πολιτισμός του ήχου και του θεάματος, Εκδόσεις Κριτική, Αθήνα 2010. (Κωδικός βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 11878).
- Δ. Παπαγεωργίου, Ν. Μπουμπάρης, Ελ. Μυριβήλη (επιμ.), Πολιτιστική αναπαράσταση, Εκδόσεις Κριτική, Αθήνα 2006. (Κωδικός βιβλίου στον Εύδοξο: 11752).
- Ιουλία Πεντάζου, Ιστορία σε έκθεση/πρακτικές ψηφιακού σχεδιασμού, Εκδόσεις ΕΑΠ, Αθήνα 2019.
- Νίκη Νικονάνου (επιμ.), Μουσειακή μάθηση και εμπειρία στον 21ο αιώνα, ΣΕΑΒ 2015, https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/712
- Τ. Δημητρούλια, Κ. Τικτοπούλου, Ψηφιακές λογοτεχνικές σπουδές, ΣΕΑΒ 2015, https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/5827
