Data, Technology and Society [2401-OG-EN-DTaS] Semestr letni 2024/25
Konwersatorium, grupa nr 1

Including but not limited to:

Couldry, Nick. (2000). The place of media power. Pilgrims and witnesses of the media age. London: Routledge.

Couldry, Nick. (2012). Media, society, world. Social theory and digital media practice. Cambridge: Polity.

Couldry, Nick, Ulises A. Mejias (2019). The cost of connection. Stanford: Stanford University Press

Lundby Knut. 2014. Mediatization of Communication. In: K. Lundby (Ed.) Mediatization of Communication. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Rainie, Lee, Wellman, Barry. (2012). Networked. The New Social Operating System. Cambridge: MIT Press

van Dijck, José (2013). The culture of connectivity. A critical history of social media. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Wojtkowski, Łukasz. (2017). The present tense of mediatization studies. Mediatization Studies, 1(1), 9-22.

Woolley, Samuel C., Howard, Philip N. Eds. (2019). Computational Propaganda. Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1. Introduction

2. Networked individualism

3. Mediatization

4. Datafication and data colonialism

5. AI: communicating with the machines

6. Protecting privacy online

7. Acting on media

8. Digital surveillance

9. Disguised propaganda part 1

10. Disguised propaganda part 2

11. Deconstructing social media platforms

12. Perils of the gig economy

13. Exploratory class

14. Exploratory class

15. Summary

Expository teaching methods:

- conversation lecture

- description

- discussion

Exploratory teaching methods

- case study

- classic problem-solving

- practical

- writing a paper

Standards

1. You have to attend class. You may skip only 2 meetings after the introduction class.

2. You have to be prepared, that is, be familiar with assigned readings and ready for the discussion. I don’t expect you’ll understand every assigned reading immediately, but I require that you’ll give a try.

3. Don’t raise your hand in class. I expect you to speak up when you have something interesting and contributing to say, but don’t speak over anyone and respect the opinions of others.

4. This is a media and communication course and you are expected to communicate and use digital media appropriately.

5. You can contact me during my office hours (and by appointment) and via email (wojtkowski@umk.pl).

Grading

1. Participation in the discussion (10 points): active class participation and familiarity with readings

2. Tasks and problems (10 points): active in-group participation in solving the practice-oriented case studies.

3. Essay (10): 5 pages long critical essay on one of the selected topics.

to 50% – 2

from 51% – 3

from 61% – 3,5

from 71% – 4

from 81% – 4,5

from 91% – 5

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