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Living in Digital Cultures - SOC00017C

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  • Department: Sociology
  • Module co-ordinator: Prof. David Beer
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: C
  • Academic year of delivery: 2024-25

Module summary

This module will provide you with resources for thinking critically about the digital cultures in which you live. It will provide a series of case studies, concepts and perspectives that help students to develop a critical understanding of the experiences of everyday life within the context and transformations of digital cultures.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 1 2024-25

Module aims

What is it like to live in digital cultures? How do people's digital lives matter and how do they differ? This module focuses on the experiences of living digitally. The module will introduce you to a range of different features of digital culture and provide students with resources for analysing and understanding the experiences and dynamics of living within those digital cultures. The module will draw on case studies and examples from different aspects of everyday life in order to illustrate, ground and develop your understanding in relation to the lived and material experiences of digital culture. This module aims to give you the foundations for thinking critically about living in digital cultures and provide the means for contextualising those experiences.

Module learning outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of the concept of digital culture and the possibilities it provides for understanding and analysing everyday life.

Critically evaluate and apply a range of key concepts, theories and perspectives to digital cultures.

Draw-upon a range of sources to analyse key features of digital culture and contextualise the experiences that define it.

Think critical and respond to the wider forces and transformations of digital culture as they shape individual lives.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Living in Digital Cultures		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

None

Module feedback

For formative work students will work in groups to develop their own single case study of one aspect of living in digital cultures. They will receive ongoing verbal feedback in the dedicated session. MLO 1-4

For Summative assessment - students will produce a case study portfolio containing two case studies. They will receive an overall mark and grading according to clearly defined criteria for assessing their knowledge, skills and abilities in line with MLO 1-4 . They will also receive written feedback showing areas in which they have done well and those areas in which they need to improve that will contribute to their progress.

Indicative reading

Indicative reading might include:

Beer, D. (2019) The Quirks of Digital Culture. Bingly: Emerald.

Miller, V. (2020) Understanding Digital Culture. London: Sage.

Bolmer, G. (2018) Theorising Digital Cultures. London: Sage.


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