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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (24.01.2023)
The course provides an introduction to the sociological understanding of how information and communication technologies shape contemporary societies. The course focuses on social, cultural, political and economic implications of the diffusion of digital media in late modernity. The lectures provide an overview of the historical development of digital media and discuss various spheres of social life which have been significantly transformed by the presence of digital media: self-presentation, social relationships, political engagement, hate speech, racism, or economy. A focus is given to the politics of social media as well as to the politics through social media. Lectures are accompanied by seminars run in a smaller group of students to allow everyone to engage in discussion through the reflection of reading. The final two weeks of the semester are dedicated to the intense and guided work on a final essay in thematically established groups. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (24.01.2023)
1. Understanding of the ways in which information and communication technologies shape contemporary societies. 2. Development of the knowledge about social, cultural, political and economic implications of the diffusion of digital media in late modernity. 3. Critical examination of one´s own position within the contemporary communication infrastructure. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (24.01.2023)
Assessment methods
A - F grading system 91 + = A |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (24.01.2023)
Compulsory readings for seminars (listed by weeks): week 2: Martha Newson et al. 2021. “Digital contact does not promote wellbeing, but face-to-face contact does: A cross-national survey during the COVID-19 pandemic”, New Media & Society, 00(0), 1-24 week 4: David Beer. 2017. “The Social Power of Algorithms”, Information, Communication & Society, 20(1), 1-13. week 6: Liron Simatzkin-Ohana & Paul Frosh. 2022. “From user-generated content to a user-generated aesthetic: Instagram, corporate vernacularization, and the intimate life of brands”, Media, Culture & Society, 44(7), 1235-1254. Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen & Livia Gerber. 2017. “Liquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacy”, Journal of Sociology, 52(2), 271-284. week 8: Raymond Drainville. 2018. “Iconography for the Age of Social Media”, Humanities, 1-26. Ging, Debbie. 2017. ‘Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere’. Men and Masculinities 22(4):638–57. week 10: Gandini, A. (2019). Labour process theory and the gig economy. Human relations, 72(6), 1039-1056. Boyer, R. (2022). Platform capitalism: a socio-economic analysis. Socio-Economic Review, 20(4), 1857-1879. Recommended literature: Barassi, V. (2019). Datafied Citizens in the Age of Coerced Digital Participation. Sociological Research Online, 24(3), 414-429. Fisher, E. and Fuchs, C. (eds.) 2015. Reconsidering value and labour in the digital age. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Gane, N., & Beer, D. (2008). New media: The key concepts. Oxford: Berg Kelty, C. (2008). Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Lupton, Deborah (2013) Digital Sociology. London: Routledge. Marres, N. (2017). Digital sociology: The reinvention of social research. London: John Wiley & Sons. Miller, V. (2011). Understanding digital culture. London: SAGE Publications. Orton-Johnson, K. and N. Prior (Eds) (2013) Critical Perspectives in Digital Sociology, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (06.02.2023)
Teaching methods: Frontal lectures accommodate Q & A parts and provoke questions meant to be discussed in seminar groups. Seminar groups provide the space for reading reflection and open, yet safe collective dabate in a smaller group of students. Two final weeks are dedicated to making students well prepared for the essay writing. The course content and homeworks should be available and submitted via the Moodle page: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=14634. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (24.01.2023)
Timetable Lectures take place in room no. 306 (Pekařská) on Wednesdays 12:30-13:50. Seminar groups have a specific timetable: Andrea Průchová Hrůzová: Wednesday, room 306, 12:30-13:50 Martin Tremčinský: Thursday, room 105, 11:00-12:20 Maksym Kolomoiets: Tuesday room 212, 14:00-15:20; Wednesday room 306, 14:00-15:20 Linda Coufal: Tuesday, room 105, 17:00 - 18:20 1st week: lecture Digitalized Societies: Course Intro
2nd week: seminar reading & discussion
3rd week: lecture Theory of New Media
4th week: seminar reading & discussion
5th week: lecture Identity, Online Environment and Social Networks
6th week: seminar reading & discussion
7th week: lecture Political Movements, Xenorasism & Polarization
8th week: seminar reading & discussion
9 week: lecture Platform Economy
10th week: seminar reading & discussion
11th week: seminar How to Write a Good Academic Essay?
12th week: consultations of essays
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