SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA

The knowledge of the social processes of the Internet and social media, the history of digital media, the characteristics of computational social science, insights into digital processes of cultural diffusion and the ability to analyze the social dynamics of the web

Big data and the social and cultural processes, big data ethics, the computational social science, the internet history, the relationship between daily life and digital media, the concept of virality in digital spaces, case studies of the analysis of internet phenomena

A. Modern approaches to the study of digital social processes

D. Bennato, Il computer come macroscopio. Big data e approccio computazionale per comprendere i cambiamenti sociali e culturali, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2015, pp. 145

B. History and sociology of digital media

R. Stella, C. Riva, C. M. Scarcelli, M. Drusian, Sociologia dei new media, Torino, UTET, 2014, pp. 220

G. Balbi, P. Magaudda, Storia dei media digitali, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2014, pp. 204

C. New platforms, new social processes

E. Arielli, P. Bottazzini, Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2018, pp.215.

G. B. Artieri, a cura, Gli effetti sociali del web, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2015, pp. 272

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