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Магистратура 2024/2025

Статус: Курс обязательный (Современный социальный анализ)

Направление: 39.04.01. Социология

Кто читает: Департамент социологии

Где читается: Санкт-Петербургская школа социальных наук

Когда читается: 2-й курс, 2 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Епанова Юлия Валентиновна

Прогр. обучения: Современный социальный анализ

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

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Abstract

The interaction between media and society is uneven: different groups demonstrate different degrees of involvement in the media context This course will focus on the relationship between youth and digital technologies. During the course, we will learn about theories that describe the modern Digital Age, as well as the concepts of Traditional and New Media, Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants and Digital Nomads. The impact of digital technologies on the everyday life of young people and the active role of young people in the creation, use and redefinition of new digital technologies will be examined. One of the objectives of the course is a critical reflection on the different degrees of digitalization of modern youth.The course is aimed at students specializing in sociology and related disciplines. Students enrolling in the course should have a background in social theory as well as skills in sociological research.

Learning Objectives

The aim of the course is to look at different aspects of the digital life of young people Be ready to - analyze and critically reflect on the theoretical discourse of the relationship between digital media, youth and society; - review relevant empirical research on the topic of the project; - make your own empirical research (in small groups)
The aim of the course is to look at different aspects of the digital life of young people.

Expected Learning Outcomes

- be able to plan their own research on the subject of digital youth;
- have experience of critical analysis of empirical and theoretical material on the sociology of digital youth.
- know the basic theoretical approaches to the analysis of digital media the main directions of the modern sociological analysis of digital youth;
know the basic theoretical approaches to the analysis of digital media the main directions of the modern sociological analysis of digital youth

Course Contents

Media, the human being, society: history and interactions
Digital Media and the everyday life of young people

Assessment Elements

In-class participation
Working оn seminars involves completing the lecturer's assignments during classes, reading texts at home, and completing assignments for seminars at home. • Be ready to: • read and discuss literature • analyze videos, cases • conduct mini-research and present the results • make PowerPoint presentations
Exam
Exam: in the format of power point presentation of the results of the research project
Research Design
The students in small research teams develop the design of the ethnographic research The following components should be included in the presentation: 1. Research topic, its relevance and significance. 2. The theoretical framework of the research. 3. The brief introduction of the research design: logic of the study, methods, sample, the description of the empirical data for analysis

Interim Assessment

2024/2025 2nd module
0.4 * Exam + 0.3 * In-class participation + 0.3 * Research Design

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected. (2007). Netherlands, Europe: The MIT Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.5E493086
Subrahmanyam, K., & Šmahel, D. (2011). Digital Youth : The Role of Media in Development. New York: Springer. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=371311
Wesch, M., & Whitehead, N. L. (2012). Human No More : Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=490947

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Christina Natalia Jesica, R. Widya S Sumadinata, & Caroline Paskarina. (2020). Effects of Mass Media and Digital Media Internet on Young Voter Participation. https://doi.org/10.31289/jppuma.v8i1.3393
Hudson, D. M., & Zimmermann, P. R. (2015). Thinking Through Digital Media : Transnational Environments and Locative Places. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1172804
The logic of connective action : Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. (2012). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.EA6634C5

Authors

EPANOVA YULIYA VALENTINOVNA

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