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:

1. Material digital technologies;
2. The presentation of self in digital spaces;
3. Migration, diaspora and transnationalism in the digital age;
4. Cybersecurity, digital failure, and social harm;
5. Too much, too young? Social media, moral panics, and young people’s mental health;
6. Semi-autonomous digital objects: between humans and machines;
7. Freedom, fetishes, and cyborgs;
8. Health and digital technologies: the case of walking and cycling;
9. Planning the cities of the future;
10. The digital sociological imagination;
11. Transnational digital networks: families and religion;
12. Algorithms;
13. Disinformation, ‘fake news’ and conspiracies.