Prerequisite courses for this course are: KK640B Media and Communication Studies: Key Themes in Media and Communication Studies (passed) KK641B Media and Communication Studies: Understanding the Creative Industries (passed) KK642B Media and Communication Studies: Collaborative Media (passed) KK643B Media and Communication Studies: Research Methodology (passed) and KK644B Media and Communication Studies: Master's (One-Year) Thesis (passed)

The course provides specific knowledge of how to work with visualization and prototype representations in media and communication. The course also provides students with skills in how to work with design-oriented and practice-based knowledge; skills that can be utilised in the final degree project.

The course begins with lectures on visualization and prototyping. On the basis of these lectures, and on the basis of the reading list, students work on a project. It is discussed at a final seminar.

After completing the course students shall:

1) Have knowledge and understanding of design-oriented and practice-based knowledge production relevant to media and communication and by that means gain insight into and understanding of different ways of managing the relationship between theory and practice

2) Be able to illustrate and discuss design-orientated strategies and aesthetic theory in relation to media and communication

After completing the course students shall:

1) Have the ability to use different visualization tools relevant to media and communication

2) Have the ability to work with prototypes in an experimental context relevant to media and communication

After completing the course students shall:

1) Have the ability to assess in what context visualization techniques, and prototyping can be used in meaningful ways

Teaching is conducted through lectures, supervision, seminars and project work. The course is web-based.

Students carry out an actual project that contains both elements of visualization and prototyping. In connection with this project, author a report about the work. The project is also presented verbally.

Kirk, Andy (2016) Data Visualisation. A Handbook for Data driven Design. London et al: Sage.

Gray, Carole and Julian Malins (2004) Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Brown, Andrew R and Andrew Sorensen (2009) "Integrating Creative Practice and Research in the Digital Media Arts" in: Smith, Hazel and Roger T. Dean (red.) (2009) Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; 153-165.

Currid, Elizabeth and Sarah Williams (2010) “The Geography of Buzz: Art, Culture and the Social Milieu in Los Angeles and New York”, Journal of Economic Geography 10(3): 423–451.

A selection of scientific articles from the library's full-text databases to be added.

Written course evaluation carried out at the end of the course.