SOCIOLOGY OF DIGITAL MEDIA

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

Big data and social sciences, ethics of big data, computational social science, history of the internet, life and digital media, privacy and surveillance, the diffusion of hoaxes and conspiracy theories.

A. The digital contemporary society (3 CFU)

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

L. Paccagnella, A. Vellar, Vivere online. Identità, relazioni, conoscenza, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016, pp. 201

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

B. The characteristics of the big data society (3 CFU)

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

V. Mayer-Schönberger, K. N. Cukier, Big data, New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013, pp. 242.

C. The social consequences of social relationship data-based (3 CFU)

W. Quattrociocchi, A. Vicini, Misinformation. Guida alla società dell’informazione e della credulità, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2016, pp. 148.

D. Cardon, À quoi rêvent les algorithmes. Nos vies à l’heure des big data, Paris, Le Seuil, 2015, pp. 108.

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