Network Cultures

• Creative Research Report (Assessment 2)
  Students will provide a learning scenario in week 7 that requires a creative analytical response and draws on the set readings, theories and examples we’ve discussed in class (drawing on the material from weeks 1-11). I will provide you with the scenario and a series of formats for delivering your response.
  Details to provided in week 7.
  Assessment Criteria
  Comprehension: Your creative report show that you can identify and summarise key arguments and debates in the set readings and in the lectorial discussions
  Application: Your creative report shows that you can identify suitable real-world examples and apply these ideas and concepts to analyse these examples
  Engagement: Your creative report shows that you are engaged with the unit material and topics
  Creative Inquiry: Your creative report shows that you are developing the capacity to make original contributions to discussions and debates in the field
  Expression: Your creative report shows you can communicate your thesis, argument and analysis using a combination of text, image and other media.

Assessment 2 Learning Scenario:
Imagine you work at an international technology company on a team whose mandate is to help foster a culture of innovation by listening to the wider community and documenting innovative creative practices. As part of your job, you create an engaging and concise report on innovative creative practices that reveal something about the lived experience of network technologies and cultural change. Your company uses these reports to learn from the experience and wisdom of other communities, to spark conversation and promote lateral thinking; ultimately they hope this will help your company respond to community needs, develop new products, fresh markets and alternative ways of working and living.
Your team is planning on developing four online Pecha Kucha creativity showcases this year to draw attention to artworks, artists and vernacular creative practices (ie everyday culture) that speak to the chosen themes. You will contribute to one of these themes with a case study that you have researched, analysed and developed. They are:
1. Together Apart: Creative practice or works that investigates new forms of social interaction or collaboration (across space)
2. In the Cloud: Creative practice or works that investigate the material, social and rhetorical dimensions of cloud-based culture
3. Desire lines: Creative practice or work that investigates data, its accumulation, circulation and effects;   practices that investigate the intersection and interaction between physical spaces and digitally networked data.
4. Analog revivals and digital networks: Creative practice, works or subcultures that revive or recirculate analog media or remediated analog or organic networks.
You will submit a Pecha Kucha Storyboard as a PDF (you can use any slide-based presentation tool to generate) that includes 20 slides, your accompanying text (apx 100-150 words per slide) and a reference list.
If you would like to produce a video version of your Pecha Kucha presentation, you may do so, but please also submit your storyboard to facilitate marking.

To develop your presentation, you will need to: document your case study: this is the cultural artifact(s) or practice(s) you are reporting on
*identify readings and concepts from across the class’ required readings and use them to explain the relevance of your case study. You can draw on readings from any of the 11 weeks of readings but remember we are looking for both depth and breadth—you should be sure to show engagement with some readings from weeks 7-11.
*Be Concise: Each slide will include an image (either found or created by you) and apx 100-150 words of text. If appropriate to your case study your slide can contain a brief audio or video clip of only 10-15 seconds.
*Distill complex ideas into plain English and apply them to your object of study
* For more on Pecha Kucha’s see: https://www.pechakucha.com/about
Students who would like to present their Pecha Kuchas will do so in week 12. Zoom classes. Why do this? Because you guys do really interesting work! It is also an opportunity to get some feedback from your tutor and peers prior to submission.