DIGITAL SOCIETY (21ME383)

DIGITAL SOCIETY

Course Code 21ME383 
CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P: S) 0:2:0:0 
SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 30 
Total Marks 100
Credits 01 
Exam Hours 01

Module-1

Introduction to Digital Society: Digital components of aconnected society Theorizing Digital Society: New forms of power; Dataas sociomaterial objects; Archives;Digital veillance

Module-2

Digital Identities and Relationships: Self and the Digital Society; Embodied IdentitiesinDigital Society; Bias and Privilege Digital Inequalities; Marginalised Histories; Cyborgs

Module-3

Digital Spaces and Practices: Rethinking space and surveillance in digital societies; Gender,Space,and Place in Digital Societies; Urban Informatics andSociological Imagination – Smartcities; Digital Healthcare; Mobility inDigital Society; Digital Heritage

Module-4

Network Society: TheInternet as a Network; Networks and theCultural Imaginary;Inequalities in the Network Society; Information Capital;Interface Design for DiversePopulations

Module-5

Re-conceptualizing Research in a Digital Age: Information Management Data AnalysisSoftware; Large Digital Systems; Data protection and the politics of data privacy

Suggested Learning Resources:
Books

1. Lupton,D.,(2015), Digital Sociology, London, New York: Routledge

2. Gere,C., (2008), Digital Culture, 2nd Edition, London: Reaktion Books Limited

Reference Books

1. Bentkowska-Kafel, A., Cashen, T., and Gardiner, H. (Eds.) (2009), Digital Visual Culture:Theory andPractice, Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books

2. Karaganis, J. (Ed.), (2007), Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, Social ScienceResearch Council,Columbia University Press

3. Tredinnick, L. (2008), Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in theDigitalAge, Oxford: Chandos Publishing Limited

Web links and Video Lectures (e-Resources):

Digital Humanities Seminar Video Archive of the Open University, UK,

http://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/digital-humanities/videos

Activity Based Learning (Suggested Activities in Class)/ Practical Based learning

 Course Seminars