SOCIETY AND DIGITAL CULTURE (2 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, student will be able to:

1. Identify the concept of individuals and society in the digital era.
2. Explain the role and influence of technology in the digital society.
3. 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