DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca Digital Culture and Sociology Introduction

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca Players: me, you. Course description Course format Course contents Related disciplines What is cultural studies? An example about today break part 1 part 2

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca Academic background Department (DIAC) Office 2D16, Research Courses taught Why am I here? Name Academic background Semesters here? Why are you here? me multiplayer you

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca course description This course examines the ways that the new information technologies are affecting everyday life, culture, institutions, groups, and individuals; dealing with issues about the representation, identity, production, consumption and regulation of IT. Grounded in the fields of cultural studies and, to a lesser extent, sociology, the course will explore a variety of topics from several theoretical approaches, as well as provide practical experience with different research methodologies (statistical, qualitative, ethnographic, textual analysis, etc.). The course will each session focus on a particular case study in order to bring theory and practise together (for example the new social practises regarding the use of mobile phones).

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca lecture seminar exercises On site 13:30 to 15:30 with break 16 to 17 course format Perspective, texts, cs... readings 1hr and a half each your time

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca The raw numbers: the hard truth 20 to 30 hours per ECTS, everything included (also the physical exam). Thus, 7,5 ECTS corresponds to 150 to 225 hours. If we count 13 hours per week per course (which amounts to 39 hours total workload per week) students will use about 156 hours during teaching period and the remaining hours for exam preparation

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca communication website s Function, updates, materials. Weekly information about preparation.

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca Du Gay, Paul, Stuart Hall, Linda James, Hugh Mackay and Keith Smith Doing Cultural Studies: The story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage. course contents

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca course contents 1.Introduction 2.Doing Cultural Studies 3.Everyday Life and IT 4.People Online 5.Cyberspace myths: Cyberpunk 6.Audiences, consumption and industry 7.Identity 8.Community  9.Cyberspace and Ethics  10.Gender 11.Regulation  12.The others´ culture lectures

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca course contents kinds of exercises Content Analysis Ethnographic methods I: Storytelling Qualitative studies: Interviews Ethnographic methods II: Participant Observation Quantitative studies: Questionnaires + Data analysis

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca your load Turn up to class Read the texts Prepare the exercises Speak in seminars The exam: synopsis format Oral exam

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca

related disciplines digital culture + sociology our object of study we borrow theories and methods from: - the humanities (“textual disciplines”) - the social sciences how is DDKS different from the other courses?

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca is the study of social life, social change, and the social causes and consequences of human behavior. Sociologists investigate the structure of groups, organizations, and societies, and how people interact within these contexts. (American Sociological Organization) FAQ: disciplines sociology culture a set of values / meanings / products / practices / symbolic communication / social behaviour / traditions... we will discuss this during the course...

DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca cultural studies The course program is in the “cultural studies” tradition but we don’t use the name as title because: - no particular political agenda - the IT angle - not only marginal cultures... to the text

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