Stories in Digital Media (SIDM) was a blog run by a few students and the professor Frieder Nake, part of the former Digital Media programme in the state of Bremen, Germany. By the end of the first decade of the millennium, the web and digital technology were advancing at an unprecedented pace in the social and artistic sphere. Developments were exciting, and we kept a log of some events and took time to reflect.

What you see here is a rendition of the content as it was back then, in a different, static archival representation. Enjoy this glimpse into a hopeful and exciting past.

Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.

The Future of our Joint Study Programme Digital Media

· Jan Wieferich · in Programme Programme @ HfK Bremen Programme @ HS Bremen Programme @ HS Bremerhaven Programme @ Uni Bremen
Dear fellow students, currently the future of the joint study programme in digital media is discussed on the administrations side. Currently the degree course is certified and we don´t really need to care about, but this certificate thats proves the quality of the degree course needs to be refreshed. As we all are more or less aware of specific problems within our international, inter-university degree course, these lacks are not unheard and the administration really tries to improve the quality of our studies, the organisation and further aspects which will be taken into account during the process of certification, the so-called "Reakkreditierung". This discussion is at least very essential. If we won´t manage it to retrieve the certificiation of quality again, it´s not really clear what a degree of an uncertified study programm is worth in our future, professional life. And the administration really would like to prevent this, in our interest. Since the end of December I´m a official elected students representative within the Joint Committee of our study programme, the so-called "Gemeinsame Kommission Digitale Medien". You´ve never heard about that ? Oh, then let me provide me the information. We´ve got three administrative organs / committees for our degree course, let me introduce them briefly. Joint Committee Digital Media (Gemeinsame Kommission)
The Joint Committee of Digital Media (JC) is the top committee of the study program. It is made up of representatives of the four universities: teachers, students and scientific staff. They are elected by the specific committees of each university. Meetings are hold every second month and they are public. Petitions have to be passed in one week before. Meetings agenda are often affected by organization of the study program.
Usually the meetings are open to the public and everybody could join. Just to mention, in the last meetings mostly students from the University of Bremen participated in the meetings. None of the Univerisity of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven nor the University of Arts Bremen. Board of Examiners (Der Prüfungsausschuss) The Board of Examiners is the committee for examination questions. As well as the Joint Committee it consits out of representatives of the four universities, which are also elected by specific committees of the four universities. The meetings are not open to the public as students objections regarding examination results are decided within this committee, for example. Currently only two students are elected into this commission, studentic representatives for the Unversity of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven as well as the University of Arts are vacant. Meetings are usually held on the same day as the Joint Commitee. Academic Committee (Die Studienkommission) This third organ is responsible for the course offers within the degree course. According to the studies regulations its main task is to ensure the provision of the course offer, including the projects provision within the BSc as well as the MSc degree course. Also, this commission has also the function to introduce new modules to the course offer. Sadly this third committee meets very unfrequent. The problem is more or less that from the lecturers side most of them are already enrolled in one of the other committees. Also there is a lack of studentic represenatives, which is in fact essential for this committee. Students Union Digital Media Last but not least I´ld like to catch your awareness for another organ. The StugA Digital Media (Wiki pages, german only) at the University of Bremen (Studiengangsausschuss Digitale Medien). This is more or less the students union for Digital Media students at the University of Bremen. Actually only a few BSc students are active for the StugA. They meet every Wednesday at 16:00 during the lecture period within the 5th floor of the MZH building, Room 5300. Every student is welcome to join this meetings. They provide also a mailing list for Digital Media students. So, finally. From my point of view we´ve got a definite lack of students participation within this administrative committees, thus the discussions related to the future of our study programme lacks the feedback of the students, which are essential in my opinion.

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