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 Research Courses taught Why am I here? Name Academic background Writing thesis? 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 group work lunch break 12 to 13 9 to 11 with break in between 11 to to 15 course format Perspective, texts, cs... intro + independent
DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca course contents 1.Intro 2.The Circuit of Culture 3.Representation: Meanings and Symbols 4.Everyday Life and IT 5.Consumption 6.Production 7.Identity 8.Community 9.Regulation 10.Ideology: Cyberspace and Ethics 11.Ideology: Geeks & Girls 12.Ideology: the others´ culture lectures
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 exercises Content Analysis (sessions 2 & 3) Ethnographic methods I: Storytelling (session 4) Qualitative studies: Interviews (sessions 5 & 6) Ethnographic methods II: Participant Observation (sessions 7 & 8) Quantitative studies: Questionnaires + Data analysis (sessions 9 & 10)
DIGITAL CULTURE AND SOCIOLOGY session 1 – Susana Tosca your load Turn up to class Read the texts Work in groups 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
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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