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Course: 2025/2026

Cultural Creativity
(17123)
Master in Advertising Communication (Plan: 359 - Estudio: 326)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: FERNANDEZ CASTRILLO, CAROLINA

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
None
Objectives
1. To convey the foundations and knowledge necessary to apply creativity to various areas of culture. 2. To work on case studies demonstrating how effective product communication can be achieved with minimal resources. Specifically, examples will be analyzed from the cultural field¿cases that have been successful in their domain despite lacking the means to develop large-scale advertising campaigns.
Learning Outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1- Cultural Creativity in the Convergence Era. 2- Media Art and Cyberculture. 3- Artivism and Social Change. 4- Case studies: Transmedia Strategies in the Cultural Field. 5- New Challenges in Cultural Creativity.
Learning activities and methodology
LEARNING ACTIVITIES Theoretical class Theoretical-practical class Group work Individual student work Exams and assessment tests TEACHING METHODOLOGY Lectures delivered by the professor with the support of digital and audiovisual media, in which the main concepts of the subject are developed and bibliographic references are provided to complement students learning. Critical reading of texts and viewing of audiovisual materials recommended by the course instructor, such as press articles, videos, advertising campaigns, reports, manuals, and/or academic papers, either for later discussion in class or to broaden and consolidate knowledge of the subject. Resolution of practical cases proposed by the professor on communication and advertising, carried out individually or in groups. Class presentations and discussions, moderated by the professor, on topics related to the content of the subject as well as on practical case studies. Preparation of assignments and reports, either individually or in groups.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Bianchini, S. & Verhagen, E. (eds.). Practicable. From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. MIT Press. 2016
  • De Mèredieu, F.. Digital and Video Art. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers. 2005
  • Dixon, S.. Digital Performance. A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2007
  • Fernández Castrillo, C., Rogel, C. & Romero Martínez, S. J.. El mash-up como recurso educomunicativo para la concienciación social sobre feminismo. ARTSEDUCA, (32), 177-192. https://doi.org/10.6035/artseduca.6339. 2022
  • Fernández-Castrillo & Mantoan. An archaeology of media artivism: attempting to draft the history of digital culture for social change. Artnodes, 33, pp. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.7238/artnodes.v0i33.420928. 2024
  • Fernández-Castrillo, C.. The AI Work of Art in the Age of its Co-Creation. magazén, 4(2), 357-384. https://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724¿3923/2023/01/008 . 2024
  • Fernández-Castrillo, C.. Prácticas transmedia en la era del prosumidor: Hacia una definición del contenido generado por el usuario (CGU). CIC Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, Vol. 19, 53- 67.. 2014
  • Fernández-Castrillo, C. & Rogel, C.. La creatividad vernácula en la era digital: enseñanza de la comunicación publicitaria en entornos conectivos. Revista ICONO 14. Revista Científica De Comunicación Y Tecnologías Emergentes 20 (1). https://doi.org/10.7195/ri14.v20i1.1700.. 2022
  • Frieling, R.; Groys, B.; Atkins, R.; & Manovich, L.. The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2008
  • García, M., & Fernández-Castrillo, C.. Narrativas interactivas y transmedialidad experiencial: resignificación del espacio ficcional aumentado en Originales Movistar+. IC Revista Científica De Información Y Comunicación, (20), 101-122. https://doi.org/10.12795/IC.2023.I20.04. 2023
  • Kerrigan, Finola . Film Marketing. New York & London: Routledge. 2017
  • Manovich, L.. The Language of New Media. Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 2001
  • Nooney, L., Portwood-Stacer, L. & Zittrain, J. L.. Reflections on Internet Culture. Journal of Visual Culture, 13(3), pp. 388-394.. 2014
  • Pine II, J. & Gilmore, J.. The Experience Economy, Updated Edition. Harvard Business Review Press. 2011
  • Rieser, M. & Zapp, A. (ed.) . New Screen Media. Cinema/Art/Narrative. London: The British Film Institute. 2002
  • Robertson, R.. Globalisation or Glocalisation?. Journal of International Communication, Vol. 18 (2), pp. 191-208.. 2012
  • Ruoff, Jeffrey. Coming Soon to a Festival Near You. Programing Film Festivals. St. Andrews Film Studies. 2012
  • Shaw, J. & Weibel, P. (ed.). Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. Karlsruhe: ZKM; Cambridge and London: The MIT Press. 2003
  • Thorburn, D. & Jenkins, H.. Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 2004
  • Tombleson, B. & Wolf, K.. Rethinking the circuit of culture: How participatory culture has transformed cross-cultural communication. Public Relations Review, 43 (1), pp. 14-25.. 2016
Additional Bibliography
  • Banks, M.; Conor, B. & Mayer, V. (eds.). Production Studies, The Sequel! Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries. London & New York: Routledge. 2009
  • Bianchini, S. & Verhagen, E. (eds.) . Practicable. From Participation to Interaction in Contemporary Art. London; Cambridge, MIT Press. . 2016
  • Du Gay, P. (ed.) . Production of Culture/Cultures of Production. Milton Keynes & London: The Open University & SAGE.. 1997
  • Fernández-Castrillo, C.. The AI Work of Art in the Age of Its Co-Creation. Magazen, 2(4), 357-384. 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10016/39152
  • Fernández-Castrillo, C. & Mantoan, D. . An archaeology of media artivism: attempting to draft the history of digital culture for social change. Artnodes, 33, pp. 1-12. 2024 https://hdl.handle.net/10016/40072
  • Florin, B.; de Klerk, N. & Vonderau, P. (eds.) . Films that Sell: Moving Pictures and Advertising. London: British Film Institute & Bloomsbury.. 2016
  • Frieling, R.; Groys, B.; Atkins, R.; Manovich, L.. The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now. San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 2008
  • Holm, N.. Advertising and Consumer Society A Critical Introduction. Routledge. 2023
  • Johnson, D.. Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries. New York: New York University Press.. 2013
  • Johnston, K. M. . Coming Soon. Film Trailers and the Selling of Hollywood Technology. Jefferson & London: McFarland. 2017
  • Kernan, L.. Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2004

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.


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