[Nettime-nl] vanaf september nu ook een tweejarige nieuwe media research master bij UvA Mediastudies

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

International M.A. in New Media ­at the University of Amsterdam

Call for Applications ­ Fall 2013, rolling admissions open on 1  
November 2012 and close on 1 April 2013

One-year and Two-year New Media M.A. Programs Available. For the two- 
year "Research Master's Program: New Media Track," see below.

New Media M.A. One-year Program

The International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture (NMMA) at the  
University of Amsterdam (UvA) is accepting applications for 2013-2014  
academic year. Applications open on 1 November 2012 and close on 1  
April 2013. The NMMA is a one-year residence program undertaken in  
English at the UvA in the heart of Amsterdam. Students become actively  
engaged in critical Internet culture, with an emphasis on new media  
theory and aesthetics, including theoretical materialist traditions,  
practical information visualization trends and web data using digital  
methods. The overall focus of the MA is on training the students as  
new media researchers. Our permanent faculty are recognized experts in  
their fields, who are committed to their students. The program admits  
approximately fifty students per year, classes are no larger than 20,  
and the faculty-to-student ratio is 1:10.

Curriculum

1st Semester: students follow a course in new media research practices  
and academic blogging, led by critical Internet theorist and tactical  
media practitioner Geert Lovink. Their entries form the  
internationally noted Masters of Media site,http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/ 
, regarded as a top blog for new media research and nominated for a  
Dutch award for best educational blog. The concurrent new media  
theories course focuses on contemporary thought around such subject  
matters as protocol, apparatus theory, media ecologies, informational  
economies, blogging, hacking, comparative media studies and wild card  
theory. The final first semester class, Digital Methods, given by the  
program Chair, Richard Rogers, trains students in novel techniques for  
Internet research, http://www.digitalmethods.net/.

2nd Semester: the student chooses between courses on digital  
sexualities, new media politics, information visualization, ubiquitous  
computing and others offered outside of new media. The digital  
sexualities course is theoretically inclined in the traditions of  
virtual ethnography. The new media politics class is concerned with  
issue mapping, and is a member of the international network of mapping  
courses following Bruno Latour's methods. The finest student work is  
entered into the annual controversy mapping award in Toulouse.  
Information visualization is a joint theoretical-practical  
collaboration between designers, programmers and analysts, where the  
product is an online tool, digital visualization or interactive  
graphic. Ubiquitous computing follows the disappearance of the  
computer, and the computerisation of everyday life, but in actuality  
is a gadget studies course, exploring the scholarship on mobile urban  
lifestyles and locative media. The program of study concludes with the  
M.A. thesis, an original analysis that makes a contribution to the  
field, undertaken with the close mentorship of a faculty supervisor.  
The graduation ceremony includes an international symposium with  
renowned speakers.

Graduates of the NMMA have gained an analytical and practical skill- 
set that enables diverse careers in research and practice-related  
areas that make use of the Internet, including business, government,  
NGOs, and creative industries that are evolving with emerging new  
media. Our graduates include Lotte Meijer, winner of a Webby award,  
and Eva Kol, whose MA thesis, Hyves, was published by Kosmos in 2008  
and sold over 5000 copies its first year in print.

Student Life

The quality-of-living in Amsterdam ranks among the highest of  
international capitals. UvA¹s competitive tuition (see below) and the  
ubiquity of spoken English both on and off-campus make the program  
especially accommodating for foreign students. The city¹s many venues,  
festivals, and other events provide remarkably rich cultural offerings  
and displays of technological innovation. The program has ties to  
organizations including PICNIC, the Waag Society, Institute for  
Network Cultures, Virtual Platform, govcom.org, and other cultural  
institutions, where internship opportunities and collaborations may be  
available, in consultation with the student¹s thesis supervisor.  
Students attend and blog, twitter or otherwise capture local new media  
events and festivals, while commenting as well on larger international  
issues and trends pertaining to new media. The quality of student life  
is equally to be found in the university¹s lively and varied  
intellectual climate. NMMA students come from North and South America  
Africa, Asia and across Europe and from academic and professional  
backgrounds including journalism, art and design, engineering, the  
humanities and social sciences. The International M.A. in New Media is  
a digital humanities program of study.

Application and Deadline

Rolling admissions from 1 November 2012 to 1 April 2013 for Fall 2013  
admission. Applications received after 1 April may be considered if  
places are available.

More Info & Questions

· International M.A. in New Media & Digital Culture - University of  
Amsterdam - http://gsh.uva.nl/ma-programmes/programmes/item/new-media-and-digital-culture.html 
 for details.

· Graduate School for Humanities, General Information, http://gsh.uva.nl/

· Further general questions?  Please write to UvA's Graduate School of  
the Humanities, email graduateschoolhumanities-fgw at uva.nl.

· Specific questions about curriculum and student life? Please write  
to Professor Richard Rogers, New Media M.A. Program Director,  
University of Amsterdam, email rogers[at]uva.nl

International M.A. in New Media ­at the University of Amsterdam

Research Master's in Media Studies, New Media Track

Two-year program

The New Media Research Master is a specialised track within the Media  
Studies Research Master's Degree Program, and focuses on the  
theoretical, artistic, practical and methodological study of digital  
culture. The New Media Research Master has two 'routes,' the  
theoretical aesthetic and the practical empirical ones. In the  
theoretical aesthetic route, students focus on contemporary media  
theory, with a concentration on critical media art, including areas  
that have been pioneered in Amsterdam (tactical media, distributed  
aesthetics). The other route is the practical empirical, which is the  
other specialty of new media research in Amsterdam: digital methods  
and information visualization. Students also may combine coursework  
from each of the two routes, putting together a course package that  
treats aesthetics and visualization, on the one hand, or media art and  
digital methods, on the other.

As a crucial component of the Amsterdam New Media Research Program,  
the New Media Research Master encourages fieldwork and lab work, which  
result in a 'new media project' and also provide materials for the  
thesis. In undertaking fieldwork, students are given the opportunity  
to spend a period abroad for structured data collection and study,  
doing either a 'research internship' or an independent project,  
supervised by a staff member. For example, in the past students have  
studied ICTs for development in Africa, and electronics factories in  
China. The lab work, which fits well with the practical-empirical  
route, would result in a research project that combines web data  
collection, tool use and development as well as visualisation. It  
often addresses a contemporary issue, such as Wikileaks Cablegate, and  
brings together a group of researchers in a data sprint, hackathon or  
barcamp, intensively working to output new info-graphics, blog  
postings and research reports on the state of art of the subject.

Outstanding New Media research master graduates are expected to  
compete favorably for PhD positions nationally and internationally,  
and have skill sets enabling new media research in scholarly and  
professional settings.

The New Media Research Master Track has as its target 15 students  
annually.

Curriculum

Year one

1st Semester: students follow courses in new media research practices  
and digital methods, which provides in-depth training in Internet  
critique and empirical analysis of the web. The research practices  
course is an introduction to and overall resource crash course on  
searching & collecting, social media data, journals in the field,  
blogging, the Amsterdam Scene, new media events, academic writing  
tips, (data) collections, data tools, data visualisation, new media  
methods, key works, collaboration & coordination. Concurrently  
students take new media theories, a course that introduces students to  
some of the major theoretical traditions in new media, including  
cybernetics, network theory, concepts of power/control, software  
studies, participatory culture, surveillance studies, digital labour,  
locative media and neo-materialism.

2nd Semester: the student follows media & politics, which places both  
historically crucial and contemporary political manifestos in relation  
to media analyses, encouraging a consideration of concepts such as  
labour, spectacle, the machine, identity and affect. Students also  
have an elective, and may choose between digital sexualities, new  
media politics, information visualization, ubiquitous computing and  
others in the research master's. (For more details on those courses,  
see the one-year MA description above.)

Year two

1st Semester: students may pursue a "research internship" or a study  
abroad program with partner universities. They may undertake fieldwork  
for a research project, or join a digital methods lab project.  
Students also may follow an elective course, taken from the broader  
Media Studies offerings.

2nd Semester: students follow an elective course, where again the  
choice is between digital sexualities, new media politics, information  
visualization, ubiquitous computing and others. Students also write  
the thesis, which is expected to be original and make a contribution  
to a discourse in the field. The research master's degree program  
concludes with a presentation and defense of the thesis.

Application and Deadline

Rolling admissions from 1 November 2012 to 1 April 2013 for Fall 2013  
admission. Applications received after 1 April may be considered if  
places are available.

More Info & Questions

· International Research M.A. in Media Studies - University of  
Amsterdam - http://www.uva.nl/en/education/master-s/master-s-programmes/item/media-studies-research.html 
 for details. When applying, indicate that your application is for  
the "New Media Track."

· Graduate School for Humanities, General Information, http://gsh.uva.nl/

· Further general questions?  Please write to UvA's Graduate School of  
the Humanities, email graduateschoolhumanities-fgw at uva.nl.

· Specific questions about curriculum and student life? Please write  
to Professor Richard Rogers, New Media Program Director, University of  
Amsterdam, email rogers[at]uva.nl

New Media M.A. Faculty at the University of Amsterdam

Richard Rogers, Professor and Chair. Web epistemology, Digital  
methods. Publications include Information Politics on the Web (MIT  
Press, 2004/2005), awarded American Society for Information Science  
and Technology¹s 2005 Best Information Science Book of the Year Award  
and Digital Methods (MIT Press, 2013). Founding director of govcom.org  
and digitalmethods.net.

Geert Lovink, Associate Professor. Critical Internet theory, Tactical  
Media. Publications include Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical  
Internet Culture (Routledge, 2007). Co-founder nettime listserve (1995  
-­ present); founder, Institute of Network Cultures, 2004. http://www.networkcultures.org/ 
.

Jan Simons, Associate Professor. Mobile Culture, Gaming, Film Theory.  
Publications include Playing The Waves: Lars von Trier's Game Cinema  
(U Amsterdam P, 2007). Project Director, Mobile Learning Game Kit,  
Senior Member, Digital Games research group. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/j.a.a.simons/

Yuri Engelhardt, Assistant Professor. Computer modeling and  
information visualization. Publications include The Language of  
Graphics (2002); founder and moderator of InfoDesign (1995-9); co- 
developer of Future Planet Studies at UvA.http://www.yuriweb.com/

Bernhard Rieder, Assistant Professor.  Software theory and politics.  
Current research interests include search engine politics and the  
mechanization of knowledge production. http://thepoliticsofsystems.net

Carolin Gerlitz, Assistant Professor. Digital research, software/ 
platform studies, social media, economic sociology, topology and  
numeracy. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/c.gerlitz/

Niels van Doorn. Assistant Professor. Materialization of gender,  
sexuality, and embodiment in digital spaces.

Thomas Poell. Assistant Professor. Social media and the transformation  
of activist communication in different parts of the world. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/t.poell/

Almila Akdag, KNAW Royal Academy Fellow. Digital humanities. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/a.a.akdag/

Erik Borra, Lecturer. Data science. http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/e.k.borra/

Michael Dieter, Lecturer. Media art and materialist philosophy. His  
writing concerns critical uses of digital and networked technologies,  
and covers topics such as locative media, information visualization,  
gaming and software modification.http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.j.dieter/

Esther Weltevrede, Lecturer. Controversy mapping with the Web,  
temporalities and dynamics online and device studies.http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/e.j.t.weltevrede/
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