Introduction to Digital Culture
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 4
- Convenors: Scott Rodgers, Robert Topinka
- Assessment: a 750-word critical analysis (20%), 1250-word comparative analysis (30%) and 2000-word essay (50%)
Module description
This course introduces you to some of the most important themes and debates relating to digital culture today. Through an examination of pressing topics - such as the role of software algorithms in perpetuating cultural biases, the ways we increasingly curate who we are through online platforms, or the rise of social media influencers - we will ask just what is becoming of culture in a digitalising world. While the module will first and foremost be thematically focused, you will in the process also begin to build up a capacity to analyse digital culture through core academic techniques such as critical reading and essay composition.
Indicative module content
- What is culture?
- What is digital?
- Interface
- Algorithm
- Data
- Identity
- Gaming
- Sharing
- Mobility
- Participation