This intermediate level course focuses on the foundations of designing and implementing digital media services from the perspectives of information studies and interactive media. During the course, internet services are investigated as starting points to map and mirror various connected cultural and social phenomena with a major focus on the needs and requirements of the users of these services.
Learning outcomes
Discovering different types of current digital media services and evaluating through practical exercises their effectiveness as tools of information retrieval and organization, mediating experiences, supporting information entities, as well as collecting research data.
Contents
Web technology; accessibility; customer’s point of view; media elements and multilinear structures; ideation, planning, and manuscripts; persuasion techniques; special issues in information services; social media and Web 2.0
Teaching methods
Teaching method
Contact
Online
Lectures
14 h
0 h
Exercises
10 h
4 h
Teaching language
Finnish,
English
Modes of study
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.
Recommended year of study
2. year autumn
2. year spring
Belongs to following study modules
Department of Information Studies and Interactive Media