Module Details
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Title Understanding Digital Culture & Society
Code SOCI213
Coordinator Dr AW Kirton
Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology
A.W.Kirton@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2020-21 Level 5 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Aims

To encourage and enable students to think critically about the place of technology in society

To introduce students to key theories of the digital age

To introduce students to key debates regarding the implications of digitisation in social, political, economic, and cultural life

To encourage and enable students to reflect critically on their own digital lives and practice

Learning Outcomes

(LO1) A critical understanding of the place of technology in society

(LO2) An understanding of key theories of the digital age

(LO3) An understanding of key debates regarding the implications of digitisation in social, political, economic, and cultural life

(LO4) An ability to reflect critically on one’s own digital life and practice

(S1) Critical thinking

(S2) Critical reading

(S3) Written communication

(S4) Group discussion skills

Syllabus
 

The module involves theoretical and empirical engamgent with a range of broad and specific topics:

Technology, power, and social change;

Theories of the digital age;

Politics, power, and resistance in the digital age;

Cultures of sharing and the sharing of culture;

Digital participation and digital divides;

Virtual community;

The digital self and online identity;

Digital deviance and crime online;

Digital surveillance, regulation and privacy;

Research in the digital age.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Lecture
Hybrid - asynchronous pre-recorded lectures
Description: Weekly lectures will introduce students to key ideas, issues and debates.
Attendance Recorded: Not yet decided

Teaching Method 2 - Seminar
Face to Face synchronous seminars, safety permitting
Description: Weekly seminars will involve group based discussion of ideas, issues and debates raised in the lecture and will be informed by required reading.
Attendance Recorded: Yes

Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 11

 10

         21
Timetable (if known) 60 mins X 1 totaling 11
  		60 mins X 1 totaling 10
  		         
Private Study 126
TOTAL HOURS 147

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Essay on a feature/aspect of digital culture or society which engages also with relevant theoretical and conceptual arguments covered in the module. There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL pena  -2000 words    100       

Recommended Texts
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