Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) • Media Studies

Lecture notes from Night Cultures (Media Studies Y) at the Universiteit van Amsterdam covering key concepts in nocturnal urban culture. Topics include territorialization and deterritorialization, liminality, the nocturnal sublime, nocturnalization, and case studies on nightclubs, cinema regulation in interwar Amsterdam, and gentrification in 1970s-90s NYC. Essential for understanding how nightlife functions as a site of cultural experimentation, government regulation, and urban representation—...

This is a final concept sheet for the Analysing Digital Culture course at Universiteit van Amsterdam, providing clear definitions of all key theoretical and practical concepts covered in the course. Topics span platform dynamics (algorithmically-driven moderation, platformisation, multi-sided markets), digital labour (gig economy, influencer work, visibility labour), creative practices (vernacular creativity, remix, memes), and critical frameworks (surveillance capitalism, digital redlining, cyb...

These roadmap notes from Media Theory at Universiteit van Amsterdam cover the foundational philosophical frameworks essential to media studies. The document explores metaphysics (ontology, reality), axiology (aesthetics and ethics), and epistemology as applied to media, alongside key distinctions between nomothetic and idiographic approaches, and analytical methods (textual, contextual, digital). Invaluable for understanding the theoretical underpinnings of the course and connecting abstract phi...

Study notes from Week 02 of Media Theory at Universiteit van Amsterdam covering foundational concepts in media studies. The document includes Mills & Barlow's framework on what theory is (academic, practitioner, and common-sense theory) and McLuhan's seminal work on media and communication, focusing on core concepts like "the medium is the message," media as extensions of the human body, auto-amputation, the global village, and the mechanical versus electric media binary. Essential f...

Study notes from Week 02 of Living Information at Universiteit van Amsterdam, covering foundational media theory and concepts. Topics include the power of media (amplification and acceleration), media-society relationship, mediated reality, surveillance types (panoptic, synoptic, omnoptic), remediation, and mass self-communication. Essential for understanding core concepts like infodemic, technomyopia, media pervasiveness, and the three fundamental assumptions of media as artifacts, activities, ...

This is more comprehensive and better suited for the final exam rather than the midterm. I recommend it for the final because it includes all the course examples and clearly links the concepts to those examples. The first section included the key concepts and the section on the last pages included course examples and how they link to the key concepts! I got a 8,8 good luck studying!!

All my class notes from last year, i got a 8.9. Goodluck!

I realized all the readings changed in comparison to older years, so here's my study with all the updated content.

I got an 8.7 average on this course using these notes

In a schematic way – rather than a lineair order – the lectures, movies and readings of Media, Time and Space are summarised (+ some personal thoughts and summary conclusions). The schematic form helps to see and understand links between different texts more quickly. For me, this was very helpful. By studying this summary, I was given an 8,7 for my final exam!

The pdf contains class notes and also important information for both the midterm and the final exam of the course, Blockchain Imaginaries.

Summary Lecture and Text week 2 part 2 - McLuhan. Everything you need to know for the exam.

Summary Lecture and Text week 2 part 1 - miles and barlow.

Summary Roadmap video week 1 - theory, philosophy, method. Everything you need for the exam

Summary Lectures and Readings - week 4 Technology. Everything you need for the exam

Summary Lectures and Readings - week 3 Identity. Everything you need for the exam.

Summary Roadmap Video Essay Structuralism - everything you need to know for the exam

Summary Roadmap Video Essay Structuralism - everything you need to know for the exam

I did my best to take notes of all the important parts of the two lectures in the sixth week, and I studied my notes before taking the exam, which helped me a lot. I hope I can help my fellow 1st year peers so that they can pass the course with a satisfactory grade :) (Note: This document only includes the sixth week lectures — make sure to get the other documents that include the remaining weeks as well!)

I did my best to take notes of all the important parts of the two lectures in the fifth week, and I studied my notes before taking the exam, which helped me a lot. I hope I can help my fellow 1st year peers so that they can pass the course with a satisfactory grade :) (Note: This document only includes the fifth week lectures — make sure to get the other documents that include the remaining weeks as well!)