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Master - Media and Technology Management: 'Seminar'
(WS '15/'16)

C. Loebbecke

2 SWS, 6 CP

Fridays, 12:30-16:30 h

Location: HS XXIII, WiSo-Building

Start: 06.11.'15

Held in English
Please note that we recommend NOT to take the seminar in the first semester of your master program!
And as we do not expect any student, we keep the option of bundling the seminar with another course.

Overview
During the course, we will read and discuss up to two major pieces to be handed out during the first session.

Dates
Nov. 6 (mandatory kick-off and group formation)
Nov. 20, Nov. 27, Dec. 4, (all '15), Jan. 08, Jan 22, (both '16),
In total max. 5 out of 6 dates to be selected, detailed information during the semester.

Location
HS XXIII WiSo-Building.

Grading

Grading will be based on

Pre-Assignment (40%)
Final Assignment (60%)

Students receiving a final grade of 4,0 or better will be awarded 6 Credit Points ('Leistungspunkte').

Literature

Rifkin, J. (2014) The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, Macmillan, New York, NY, US.
Shirky, C. (2008) Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations, Penguin Press, New York, NY, US.
Website and and perhaps first-hand coverage of 'Digital Agenda 2020' ─ s. for instance ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en

Pre-Assignment Due Nov 6, '15, 11:00 am via eMail

Summarize each of the following 10 chapters in about 300 words each and write a thoughtful essay of about 1000 words comparing the messagses and the lines of yrguments of Rifkin and Shirky (in the books mentioned)
(1) Rifkin, Chapters 1, 11, 12, 13, 15 and (2) Shirky, Chapter 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 BEFORE the 1st session. We will discuss those chapters in the first session.

Students can get the books online any time ... And we will provide you with those chapters by eMail after having forwarded your course registration (see below) to the WiSo-PA on Oct. 23, '15.

(The approval of the registration by the WiSo-PA makes it binding in terms of credits and 'Maluspunkte'.)

Please eMail the assignment as ONE non-protected word doc(x) with smart headings to stefan.cremer<at>uni-koeln.de and claudia.loebbecke<at>uni-koeln.de. Make sure to have a decent cover page with all typically required information. We only read sMail accounts!!!