Sociology of new media

elective courses

(in Polish) Student powinien znać klasyczne teorie socjologiczne i mieć opanowany język angielski w stopniu umożliwiającym swobodne czytanie tekstów naukowych w tym języku. Mile widziana znajomość etyki.

Classroom

The aim of the seminar will be to look at the notion of new media on the assumption that the media constitute a space for mediating interpersonal relations, and therefore their transparency or visibility is a determinant of what problems become evident or can be overlooked in the study of social relations. Starting from the reflection on the notion of mediation, the seminar will address such issues as new spaces of mediation, the medium and the environment, ethical problems of the presence of new media in everyday life, and mediatised identity.

The aim of the seminar will be to look at the notion of new media in the assumption that media constitute a space for mediating human relations, and therefore their transparency or visibility is a determinant of what problems become evident or can be overlooked in social research.

Firstly, the notion of medium and the ways of understanding 'community media' will be analysed. We will consider what role media play in the formation of interpersonal relations. This will be followed by theories that draw attention to the problem of the place in which mediatised human relations are created and the multiplication of lifeworlds. In the next step, we will look at how interpersonal relations function in the sphere of new media and what social and ethical problems related to, among others, notions of transparency, privacy, identity and habits are revealed.

Dieter Mersch, Teorie mediów (fragm.)

 Kazimierz Krzysztofek, W stronę maszyn społecznych. Jaka

będzie socjologia, której nie znamy?

 Ruth Rettie, Using Goffman’s Frameworks to Explain

Presence and Reality

 Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Saturated and situated:

expanding the meaning of media in the routines of

everyday life

 Nicholas Mirzoeff, Jak zobaczyć świat: Jak widzimy siebie

oraz Selfie i planetarna większość.

• Leah Lievrouw, New media and the ‘pluralization of life-

worlds’

 Mateusz Halawa, Facebook – platforma algorytmicznej

towarzyskości i technologia siebie

 D. Jemielniak, A. Przegalińska, Społeczeństwo współpracy:

Współpracujące gadżety, Bycie razem online

 Jose van Dijck, ‘You have one identity’: performing the self

on Facebook and LinkedIn

 D.E. Wittkower, Discrimination

 J. Humphry, Visualising the future of work: myth, media

and mobilities

K_W02 Is aware of ongoing theoretical and methodological disputes conducted in modern sociology; is reflective and critical of various positions

K_W06 Has in-depth knowledge about cultural diversity and its transformations, cultural identity, and intercultural interaction and communication

K_W07 Has in-depth knowledge of selected methods and techniques of social research, their limitations, specificity and areas of application

K_W08 Is aware of the importance of a reflective and critical approach to the results of social research, analyses and research procedures

K_W10 Has in-depth knowledge about major international and domestic sociological research pertaining to selected areas of social reality or sub-domains of sociology

and institutions

K_U03 Can independently form and verify judgments about the causes of selected social phenomena

K_U04 Can use theoretical categories and research methods in the description and analysis of social and cultural changes in modern societies, as well as their consequences

K_U08 Knows how to interpret the role of culture in the life of the individual and society

Presentation, essay

The permissible number of excusable absences: 2

Rules for re-sit: the same as for term I