- Docente: Marco Santoro
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SPS/07
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Communication Sciences (cod. 8885)
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to analyze digital media technologies and cultures with the aid of sociological concepts and social research tools.
Course contents
What are "new" media? The digital revolution and its myths
The contribution of sociology to the understanding of digital media
Information, communication, participation
Max Weber meets the hacker ethic
The cultural diamond and the digital media
Computers and information society
Cooperation on line, file sharing and the model of the gift
Media, public sphere, and politics
Social relations and identities on line
Ethnographical research of social media
The economy of the web
Big data & society
Readings/Bibliography
N. Couldry, Media, Society, World, Cambridge, Polity 2012.
P. Himanen, The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age, Vintage, 2001
d. boyd, It's complicated. The social lives of networked teens, New Haven, Yale UP 2014. Teaching methodsTeaching methods
Face to face lessons with practical exercises of social research
Assessment methods
Oral exam, with the possibility to present a research paper on a topic previously agreed upon
Office hours
See the website of Marco Santoro