SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA

The knowledge of social processes of internet and social media, history of digital media, characteristics of computational social science, the politics of algorithms.

Big data and social sciences, ethics of big data, computational social science, history fo the internet, life and digital media, privacy and surveillance, algorithms and public opinion.

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

L. Paccagnella, A. Vellar, Vivere online. Identità, relazioni, conoscenza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016;

D. Bennato, Il computer come macroscopio. Big data e approccio computazionale per comprendere i cambiamenti sociali e culturali, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2015;

E. Pariser, The Filter Bubble, New York, Penguin, 2011.