SOCIOLOGIA DIGITALE

According to the Dublin descriptors, students, at the end of the course, will demonstrate:

1. Knowledge and understanding

The knowledge of the social processes of contemporary society, the knowledge of the main digital research techniques, the understanding of the technological and communicative elements of the internet

2. Applying knowledge and understanding

The conscious use of digital technologies, the ability to identify the social processes involved in collective dynamics.

3. Making judgment

The ability to critically reflect on the social consequences of digital technologies, the identification of the limits and opportunities of digital social processes.

4. Communication skills

The ability to use digital technologies, the writing skills in digital spaces

5. Learning skills

The understanding of the socio-technical functioning of digital platforms, the ability to collect reliable information through the internet

The course takes place essentially in the form of lecture structured in three different modules (general characteristics, research methods, case study analysis), with extensive use of tools for student involvement: questions for the verification of concepts, collective discussion of crucial cases, digital tools for involvement and participation

MODULO C – Digital sociology: case study

 Text:

- T. Venturini, A. K. Munk, Controversy mapping: A field guide, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2021, pp. 385

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