Welcome!
Welcome to the Designerly Approaches to Social Media (#DASM) -course!
During the coming three weeks we will take a deep dive to the world of social media, how it works, how we can work in there, and how we can take advantage of it in our work? The course consist of (1) lectures and discussions every morning from Tuesday to Friday, 9.15 - 12.00 and (2) a social media project done during the course.
Teachers: Teemu Leinonen (@teemul) & IIda Hietala
Tools we use: Zoom, Discord server, Blogs
Week 1: Join or Die: The power of social media
Tuesday, 20 April, 09:15 - 12:00
Teemu Leinonen: Introduction, assignments, study project
Lecture: Agnieszka Pokrywka: Cyano Automaton
Lecture: Teemu Leinonen: History of social media, critical design
Homework: Article 1
Wednesday, 21 April, 09:15 - 12:00
Fishbowl discussion on the homework reading
Lecture: Iida Hietala: Social media industry
Lecture: Teemu Leinonen: Social media and geopolitics
Homework: Article 2
Thursday, 22 April, 09:15 - 12:00
Fishbowl discussion on the homework reading
Lecture: Ph.D Minttu Tikka: The active agency of ordinary people in mediatized crises
Friday, 23 April, 09:15 - 12:00
Design exercise 1: Papanek's paper computer
Lecture: Ph.D Ksenia Mukhina: Studying urban and cultural dynamics using social media
Design exercise 2: Three visualisations
Week 2: Activists, pirates and hackers
Tuesday, 27 April, 9:15-12:00
Lecture: Teemu Leinonen: Lets talk about AI
Lecture: serial entrepreneur, MSSc Pauliina Seppälä: Early dreams and . . . business as usual
Lecture: Teemu Leinonen: What will come after the Web and the Social Media?
Wednesday, 28 April, 9:15 - 12:00
Fishbowl discussion on the homework screening
Lecture: Ph.D. Pekka Sauri (@pekkasauri) TBA
Thursday, 29 April, 10:15 - 12:00
Meeting in Töölönlahti pier in the Finlandia Hall end of the lake. Map link.
Discussion on the homework reading
Friday, 30 April, 9:15 - 12:00
Discussion on the homework reading
Lecture: PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher Salla-Maaria Laaksonen: Connective action theory and online humor as activism: the curious case of Loldiers of Odin.
Mid-course presentations.
Week 3: Critical Design
Tuesday, 4 May, 9:15 - 12:00
Studio 1: Working on your projects
Studio 2: Your presentations
Wednesday, 5 May, 9:15 - 12:00
Meeting in Töölönlahti pier in the Finlandia Hall end of the lake. Map link. We will walk to the Cafe Regatta. We will be there around 10.
Discussion on the homework reading
Thursday, 6 May, 9:15 - 12:00
Studio 3: Working on your projects
Studio 4: Working on your projects
Friday, 7 May, 9:15 - 12:00
Presentations