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Digital cultures

Digitalne kulture

Course credits:

6.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

doc. dr. Eva Vrtačič

Type:

Elective expert

Language:

English

Semester:

First semester

Study degree

1. level

    Course execution:

  • Undergraduate Programme of Cultural studies - Studies of Culture and Creativity
  • Undergraduate Programme of Social Informatics
  • Undergraduate Programme of Sociology

Prerequisits:

Students are allowed to participate in the course provided that they have completed the enrolment procedure.

Objectives and competences

OBJECTIVES: To equip students with conceptual apparatus and theoretical framework that will enable them to comprehend and critically reflect the role of digital technologies in contemporary Western societies. COMPETENCES: Knowledge and understanding of contemporary theoretical insights into the topic, ability to critically analyze the aspects of everyday life that digital technologies most dramatically influence.

Content (Syllabus outline)

Digital cultures is a transdiciplinary course, aimed at investigating the social and cultural impacts of emerging technologies as well as at studying new cultural practices, forms and artefacts. It is focused mainly on the vast changes in various contexts and aspects of everyday life. The course offers insights into most prominent technologies, themes and debates that characterize contemporary Western cultures. The conceptual apparatus is given through different case studies, while key theoretical insights are engaged with, contextualized and critically interpreted in an anthropological manner. Topics: internet, digital popcultural production, hacktivism, social networks, electronic devices, internet memes, web economies.

Intended learning outcomes:

Knowledge and understanding of key theoretical views on digital cultures, the ability to employ the conceptual apparatus and theoretical frameworks for the critical analysis of concrete themes and cases.

Learning and teaching methods:

- lectures - seminar - individual research - consultations - a maximum of 25 % of activities will take place online (via Zoom, online classroom etc.).

Assessment

Written midterm exam (30 %), written final exam (70%).

Obligatory literature

1. Unit of obligatory literature:


Notes: Pedagog bo izbrano gradivo študentom podal pri predmetu neposredno na predavanjih, ali v spletni referat ali spletno učilnico.

2. Unit of obligatory literature:


Author: Zuboff, Shoshana
Title: The age of surveillance capitalism : the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power »
Publishing: London : Profile Books, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78283-274-4
COBISS.SI-ID: 13444636 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.vlebooks.com/product/openreader?id=unilj&accId=9486805&isbn=9781782832744
All obligatory literature in catalog ODKJG »

Additional literature

1. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Drage, Eleanor (ur.); McInerney, Kerry (ur.)
Title: The good robot : why technology needs feminism »
Edition: 1st ed.
Publishing: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
ISBN: 978-1-3503-9998-3; 978-1-3503-9997-6; 978-1-3503-9999-0
COBISS.SI-ID: 188189955 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350399990&st=The+Good+Robot%3A+Why+Technology+Needs+Feminism

2. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Doctorow, Cory
Title: The internet con : how to seize the means of computation »
Publishing: London ; New York : Verso, 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80429-216-7
COBISS.SI-ID: 205372931 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.vlebooks.com/product/openreader?id=unilj&accId=9486805&isbn=9781804292167

3. Unit of additional literature:


Author: Tarnoff, Ben
Title: Internet for the people : the fight for our digital future »
Publishing: London ; New York : Verso, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-83976-203-1
COBISS.SI-ID: 172191747 - Record/s in the catalog ODKJG »
E-edition: http://nukweb.nuk.uni-lj.si/login?url=https://www.vlebooks.com/product/openreader?id=unilj&accId=9486805&isbn=9781839762031
All additional literature in catalog ODKJG »

Hot to aquire credits:

For full and part study

  1. Lectures, seminars and individual consultations
    Written exam, oral exam, written/oral exam
    Midterm exam

Curriculum was last modified on: 12.06.2024