9795422 - 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

Knowledge of the political and cultural phenomena of the last twenty years, daily use of the internet and its main services.

The frequency is mandatory

Module A: the new research field of digital sociology, the social and technological dimensions of contemporary society.
Module B: the methodology and techniques of social research in digital platforms.
Module C: the digital media between isolation and participation, the characteristics of digital textual consumption

MODULO A – Digital sociology: characteristics
N. Marres, Digital sociology, Cambridge, Polity press, 2017, pp.240
D. Lupton, Digital sociology, London, Routledge, 2014, pp.188

MODULO B – Digital sociology: research methods and application field
A. Caliandro, A. Gandini, I metodi digitali nella ricerca sociale, Roma, Carocci, 2019, pp.158
M.J. Salganik, Bit by Bit. Social research in the digital age, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2018, pp.300

MODULO C – Digital sociology: case study
C. Cantale, Gli uomini e i testi, Ledizioni.it, 2019, pp.122
S. Turkle, Alone together, New York, Basic Books, 2011, pp.386

The assessment of the examination will take into account the candidate's mastery of the content and skills acquired, linguistic accuracy and lexical property, and the argumentative ability demonstrated by the candidate