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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (31.01.2024)
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. The course has a relationship with the course “Digital Ethnography”. It is highly recommended that students attend the course “Digitalized Societies” FIRST. |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (31.01.2024)
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. (31.01.2024)
Assessment methods
In the course, there is the ZERO AI USE policy. If there is a suspicion for the use of an AI tool, a material is going through an AI detector tool and there is an oral examination of students regarding the research process and the content of the submitted material. A - F grading system 91 + = A |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (31.01.2024)
Compulsory readings for seminars (listed by weeks): week 2: Emilie Munch Gregersen et al. 2023. ´Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown´. Media, Culture & Society. Vol. 45(5) 967–984 Marie Heřmanová. 2022. ´Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid‐19 Among Influencers´. Media and Communication. Vol. 10(4) 180–190. week 4: Mühlhoff, R. (2020). Human-aided artificial intelligence: Or, how to run large computations in human brains? Toward a media sociology of machine learning. New Media & Society, 22(10), 1868-1884. week 6: Michelle Gorea. 2021. ´Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions´ Social Media + Society, 1–12. 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: Roza Tsagarousianou. 2023. ´The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe´. Media, Culture & Society. 1-18. (online first) Ging, Debbie. 2017. ‘Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere’. Men and Masculinities 22(4):638–57.
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. (31.01.2024)
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. One final week is dedicated to making students well prepared for the essay writing. The course content and homeworks should be available and submitted via the Moodle. OPTIONAL: Robotic workshop 11. 4. 2024 9.00-11.00 National Technical Library (free attendance) |
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Poslední úprava: Mgr. Andrea Hrůzová, Ph.D. (31.01.2024)
1st week: lecture Digitalized Societies: Course Intro (21. 2.)
2nd week: seminar reading & discussion (28. 2.)
3rd week: lecture Theory of New Media (6. 3.)
4th week: seminar reading & discussion (13. 3.)
5th week: lecture Identity, Online Environment and Social Networks (20. 3.)
6th week: seminar reading & discussion (27. 3.)
7th week: lecture Political Movements, Xenorasism & Polarization (3. 4.)
8th week: seminar reading & discussion (10. 4.) & How to Write a Good Academic Essay?
OPTIONAL 11. 4. Robotic Workshop in National Technical Library (9.00-11.00)
9th week: guest lecture by Martin Tremčinský “(Hidden) Labour in Digital Capitalism” (17. 4.)
10th week: lecture & discussion Digital Economy (24. 4.)
11th week: 1. 5. National Holiday (essay draft submission)
12th week: 8. 5. National Holiday (essay draft submission)
13th week: seminar consultations of essays (15. 5.)
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