SOCIETY AND DIGITAL CULTURE (2 Credits)
Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, student will be able to: LO1 – Identify the concept of individuals and society in the digital era; LO2 – Explain the role and influence of technology in the digital society; LO3 – Discuss the power and inequality in the digital society.
Topics:
- Material digital technologies;
- The presentation of self in digital spaces;
- Migration, diaspora and transnationalism in the digital age;
- Cybersecurity, digital failure, and social harm;
- Too much, too young? Social media, moral panics, and young people’s mental health;
- Semi-autonomous digital objects: between humans and machines;
- Freedom, fetishes, and cyborgs;
- Health and digital technologies: the case of walking and cycling;
- Planning the cities of the future;
- The digital sociological imagination;
- Transnational digital networks: families and religion;
- Algorithms;
- Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and conspiracies.
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