Production of Social Media

Outline of the course

Tiivistelmä suomeksi (Finnish Summary): Sosiaalisen median tuotannon kurssi on tarkoitettu pääasiassa Suomessa opiskeleville tutkinto- ja vaihto-opiskelijoille. Kurssikieli on kuitenkin englanti. Kurssi tutustuttaa omakohtaisen projektityöskentelyn avulla opiskelijat sosiaalisen median työkaluihin, alustoihin, käsitteisiin sekä teoreettisiin ja tutkimuksellisiin lähestymistapoihin.

Course code: HERI0304-0305 / University of Turku / European Heritage, Digital Media and the Information Society Master's Program

Credits: 10 ECTS Learning outcomes:

Student is familiar with concept of social media
Student can use web-based social media tools for one’s own work
Student is able to produce base material for digital cultural project
Student gains ability to identify and utilize appropriately sources of information for a research project

Course contents: Course consists of on-line assigments about social media and its digital tools. Optionally, course consists of research and digital material production for a digital cultural project with an external, non-academic partner.

Teaching methods: On-line course and examination or individual practical exercises and work

Assessment methods: Examination, team work presentations, grading: 0-5

Person in charge: Prof. Jaakko Suominen

Year of study, semester: 1st year, spring term, III-IV period

Timetable:

Preliminary assigment is due 12 Feb
"Live contact 1": 13 Feb 2013 10:15-11:45 in Turku, Tempo hall, Minerva Building, 2nd floor
- Introduction of the course, the teacher and the students
- Discussion based on the preliminary assigment: what do you know about social media and what do you want to learn
- Discussion on how to achieve course goals and personal aims
- Ideation on how to share preliminary knowledge, how to divide course into individual steps/works/assigments/projects and collaborative projects

Individual and group working (how to proceed)
- Course readings, essays, group meetings etc.

"Live contact 2": 17 Apr 2013 10:15-11:45 in Turku, Tempo hall, Minerva Building, 2nd floor
- A quick presentation of the project conducted so far
- Discussion on how to proceed after this

Mini essays of course readings are due:
Course assigment 1 is due:
Course assigment 2 is due:
etc.

Preliminary assigment

It could be nice if you could do a small preliminary assignment for the Production of Social Media course: could you please write a 1-2 pages long paper on what do you know about social media and what would you like to learn about it. I hope that you could return the papers to me (via email) before 12th Feb.

Previous Knowledge

Cultural Heritage and Digital Media: Highlights from EuroMACHS at Univ. of Turku , Fall 2012

Web 2.0 and Social Media: EuroMACHS at University of Graz, Fall 2012

Personal learning objectives

What would you like to learn during the course, please add objectives here:

Practical projects, cultural heritage institutions and how they could use social media

Benchmarking:

globalization
transnationalism
learning about the measurement tools (what is happening in different social media, statistics, webometrics)
How social media affects the daily life of people

Individual Benchmarking projects

Museums in Austria - Nina
Cultural events in Turku - Leigh Ann
How big Cultural Heritage Institutions present themselves in Social Media - Thomas
Cultural Heritage in Facebook - Pages and Private Impressions - Nora
Your own experience with cultural heritage as a user of social media (e.g. Facebook) - Nathalie

Tools for learning

Learning diary / portfolio

Use, if possible, a social media tool (a FB-page, a blog etc. for creating a learning diary). Please document, what you want to learn and what you have learn, describe assigments and projects you have conducted during the course and maybe link larger documents etc. Keep also track how much you have use hours for the course.

Leigh Ann's Learning Diary

Thomas' Learning Diary

Nina's Learning Diary

Nathalie's Learning Diary

Nora's Learning Diary

A Facebook group

A Facebook group for a course for group discussion, timetables etc.

Facebook-Group Production of Social Media

Ideas for course assigments and projects

Mu Pori o kaunis (My Pori is beautiful)

Assigment type: Individual work + group discussion

Description: Get to know a Finnish Facebook group called "Mu Pori o kaunis" (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mu-Pori-o-kaunis/511859835497156?ref=ts&fref=ts) which is mainly for circulating beautiful photos from the city of Pori by different amateur photographers. Take a look of the group as a sort of outsider and as a researcher. How can you classify photos? What photos do seem to be popular and how do you explain popularity? Can you find similar groups or phenomena related to your hometown? In which various ways the photos are connected to cultural heritage and history? Please write a 1-2 page long miniessay of those issues and comment on others' essays at least twice.

Impressions of "Mu Pori o kaunis" written by Nora

Comparing two city photoblogs written by Leigh Ann

A Sports tracker and cultural heritage

Assigment type: Group work (for two groups)

Description: Make a concept plan for a service with combines a sports tracker (find information of them if needed), cultural heritage as content (in a way or another) and maybe some other social media service such as Facebook or Pinterest as well. Make a short video about your concept plan and link the video to YouTube or to some other social media video platform.

Turku Culture Tracker - Blog

Theoretical Research: