| Kursusnavn (dansk): | Digitalt materiale og sociale medier |
| Kursusnavn (engelsk): | Digital Material and Social Media |
| Semester: | Forår 2014 |
| Udbydes under: | Bachelor i digitale medier og design (bdmd) |
| Omfang i ECTS: | 15,00 |
| Kursussprog: | Dansk |
| Kursushjemmeside: | https://learnit.itu.dk |
| Min. antal deltagere: | 0 |
| Forventet antal deltagere: | 0 |
| Maks. antal deltagere: | 23 |
| Formelle forudsætninger: | Webdesign og portfolio |
| Læringsmål: | Describe the notion of social media and social network sites within the context of Internet Studies and Communication Studies.
Discuss Social Network Analysis techniques applied to Social Media.
Design and implement relational databases and use Structured Query Language (SQL) to query the database
Integrate PHP with the database in order to develop small applications that retrieve and display the data in an semantically valid way
Describe what application programming interfaces (API’s) are and their general usage
Account for the Twitter API and retrieve Tweets based and various criteria
Discuss the practical and theoretical usage of HTML5/CSS3 and apply them in practice
Analyse the Ethical implication of the developed software tool. |
| Fagligt indhold: | The course will be organised into a theoretical and a practical part. The two parts will run parallel throughout the semester.
The theoretical part of the course will introduce the concept of network, social network sites and social media. It will focus on the most diffuse platforms Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia. At the same time it will present existing tools and researches dealing with social media pointing out limits and possibilities of online data usage. Throughout the course we will also focus on the ethical and methodological implications of working with online social media data.
The focus of the technical part of the course is a practical look at programming. The course will cover:
- database theory, what are databases,
- practical programming with PHP
- HTML5 from a semantic point of view.
During the course we will work with the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) allowing us to query the Twitter API, retrieve Tweets, post statuses, retrieve user information, and store these in our own databases.
We will work with HTML5 from a semantic point of view, focusing on the parts of the HTML5 spec that are ready for primetime. |
| Læringsaktiviteter: | 14 ugers undervisning bestående af forelæsninger og øvelser 14 weeks of teaching consisting of lectures, exercises and supervision
- Lectures by the teacher, guest talks, student presentations and ongoing discussions.
- Group work in connection with the exercises, and from mid - course focused on the examination project.
- Practical / analytical exercises that the groups work with during the exercise session and after. |
| Obligatoriske aktivititer: | The weekly exercises must be handed in, and at least 10 of the 12 exercises must be approved. |
| Eksamensform og -beskrivelse: | X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 7-trins-skala, Ekstern prøve Hand-in with oral exam supplemented by hand-in.
Duration of the exam: 30 minutes (incl. assessment)
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| Litteratur udover forskningsartikler: | PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja
SitePoint; Fifth Edition (May 15, 2012)
ISBN-10: 0987153080 |
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