Магистратура
2021/2022
Цифровые методы для гуманитариев
Статус:
Курс адаптационный (Глобальная и региональная история / Global and Regional History)
Направление:
46.04.01. История
Кто читает:
Департамент истории
Где читается:
Санкт-Петербургская школа гуманитарных наук и искусств
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1, 2 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ
Преподаватели:
Рахманова Лидия Яковлевна
Прогр. обучения:
Глобальная и региональная история
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
5
Контактные часы:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course provides a critical view of digital humanities in terms of technology, method and nature of the virtual world. It discusses the concepts of digital sovereignty, the role of digital space in rethinking new media, access to the political field, corporality, coming of age, death and identity.
Learning Objectives
- The aim of the course is to show the anthropological perspective and introduce several new optics for analysis and critical reflection of the digital humanities field , and particularly on the phenomenon of the Digital.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to efficiently communicate based on the goals and communication situations
- Capable of developing in students of general and vocational education institutions a tolerant attitude towards social, cultural, psychological and other differences between people, understanding and respect for ethnocultural specificities.
- Capable of mastering special literature in several languages
- Capable of processing information sources using quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis
- Capable of understanding and taking into account social and cultural differences in professional activity
- The ability to find a balance between different approaches and interpretations of reality under study
- The skill of discussing and analyzing sensitive topics, abstracting from a personal backround
- Understand the ways of visualization and spatial representation of social objects and phenomena
- Work with information: find, define and use the information from different sources which required for solving of research and professional problems
Course Contents
- The optics and methods of exploring the Digital
- New media. Rethinking the information balance of power between the public and the elites
- The Spatial Dimension of the Digital.
- The Identification Authority
- Digital Sovereignty
- Administrative panopticon
- Governmentality vs Environmentality
- Coming of Age in Social Networks
- Death and anonymity in a digital society
- Identity of a human and identity of a User: new regimes of subjectivity.
- Corporality, Medicine and Bioethics in the framework of digital authority
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Underberg, N. M., & Zorn, E. (2013). Digital Ethnography : Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media (Vol. 1st ed). Austin: University of Texas Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=548651
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Terras, M. M., Nyhan, J., & Vanhoutte, E. (2013). Defining Digital Humanities : A Reader. Farnham, Surrey, England: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=608888