Course leader: Antonio CASILLI.
Tutor: Elinor WAHAL
This course provides a training in sociology of social media and an exploration on the social impact of information and communication technologies. You will acquire knowledge of key concepts of social sciences applied to digital technologies: identity, community, social networks, social capital, work/cooperation, norm, privacy, public space, social structures, collective action …
This course requires you to be fluent in English (written and spoken) as your assessment will be carried out via oral exposés, readings, reports, online contribution, and applied exercises.
The ultimate goal is to allow you to develop a critical distance from your own use of digital technologies, which will be systematically transferable to professional context.
WARNING: this course requires attendance and participation as a specific course objective.