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A group of freaks from St. Petersburg sets
off for a travel to the moon in order to establish a underground
television and to broadcast “the truth” from outer
cosmic space to the whole wide world (www). That this aim is hard
to achieve and confronted with lots of problems and confusions
is easy to understand and nice to look at in one of the Internet
cartoons presented by the famous animation studio Mult.ru.
The cartoons and comics made by the team of St. Petersburg artist
Oleg Kuvaev are characterized by a high level of self-reflection
of media use and its significance for society. In an entertaining
way they put forward questions concerning the relationship of
public sphere and the media: what role do TV, Film, Internet and
Literature play for the “construction” of the individual
and the society, of public and private sphere, of present and
past? In our seminar we set for a departure to explore these questions
on the basis of theoretical approaches from social sciences (Habermas,
Negt/Kluge, Fraser) and media theory (Baudrillard, Manovich) and
on the basis of practical case-studies devoted to Russian Reality
shows, Soap operas, Internet cartoons or works of Web literature
and Net art.
The seminar is a joint study program of lecturers and students
in Moscow, Kursk, Bochum and Münster. It is mainly based
on the Internet (Distance Learning) but local study groups meet
as well in offline-sessions. Scholars from different academic
fields join the study program and participate as experts via discussion
forum or chat. To the end of the seminar a common workshop (spring
2005) in Moscow is planned.
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14.02.2005
It was a great pleasure to work with you for the last few months!
We hope to 'see' you again in future distance learning courses.
14.02.2005
Unfortunately only eight of you (all participants from Germany
and three from Russia) gave us their feedback by filling out the
Course Evaluation Form.
31.01.2005
The last
Presentation on "Metaphors
of the Russian Internet" is online now.
28.01.2005
Because of time constraints we need to discuss all
Presentations still due within
the next few days. For practical reasons we would like you to
leave all your comments in one and the same
Discussion Forum.
24.01.2005
We are always looking for ways to improve our teaching
and your feedback is extremely important in this effort. So please
take the time to fill out the
Course Evaluation Form until
February 5th.
21.01.2005
We are very happy to announce the first
Presentation
of the course handed in by Julia Heckmann on
"Soap Operas: Real Life Experience as a Marketing Strategy?"
Please give her your feedback in the
Discussion Forum.
Older announcements you find in the
Archive
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