Digital Sociology

obligatory courses

(in Polish) Zajęcia obowiązkowe dla kierunku Socjologia Cyfrowa.

10 miejsc przeznaczonych dla studentów Socjologii jako przedmiot fakultatywny.

W semestrze zimowym wykład będzie miał charakter zdalny, w formie podcastów.

Classroom

The aim of the lecture will be to familiarize students with key theoretical concepts describing the new digital reality in the world of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as the era of robots. In the course of the lecture students will acquire a set of instruments necessary to study and analyze various social phenomena in the world of ICT and will learn to apply these concepts to the observed dimensions of social life. During the meetings, we will focus on issues related to digital sociology, as a newly emerging scientific discipline (block I), social history of new digital technologies (block II), sociological approach to economic changes that are a context for the analysis of the digital society, and the specificity of social relations in the era economy 4: 0 (block IV) and the position of the social actor himself, being both the subject and the object of ongoing processes.

he digital revolution unfolding on our eyes not only affects visible changes in the patterns of production and consumption of goods and services, the global acceleration of information transmission, or the formation of so-called. culture "instant", but largely reorganizes the labor market and education, allowing access to knowledge and remote work for residents of even the most remote corners of the world. It is worth considering whether, and if so, how the progressing digitalization changes the existing social relationships in various spheres of our lives, ranging from the relationship between the social actors themselves, through new forms of cooperation at the macro level (platformisation, sharing economy), for a look at new forms of research into the social world within the emerging paradigm of digital sociology.

The aim of the lecture will be to familiarize students with key theoretical concepts describing the new digital reality in the world of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as the era of robots. In the course of the lecture students will acquire a set of instruments necessary to study and analyze various social phenomena in the world of ICT and will learn to apply these concepts to the observed dimensions of social life. During the meetings, we will focus on issues related to digital sociology, as a newly emerging scientific discipline (block I), social history of new digital technologies (block II), sociological approach to economic changes that are a context for the analysis of the digital society, and the specificity of social relations in the era economy 4: 0 (block IV) and the position of the social actor himself, being both the subject and the object of ongoing processes.

Manuel Castells, 2010. Społeczeństwo sieci, Wydawnictwo PWN, Warszawa.

Nick Couldry, 2013. Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (1. Aufl.). s.l.: Polity.

Thomas Piketty, 2015. Kapitał w XXI wieku, Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, Warszawa.

Michael Prensky, 2001. Digital natives, digital immigrants. On the horizon. Dostęp online: http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-%20Digi-

tal%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf.

Marta Olcoń-Kubicka, 2009. Indywidualizacja a nowe formy wspólnotowości, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa.

PwC (2014). The sharing economy. Dostęp online: https://www.pwc.com/us/en/technology/publications/assets/pwc-consumer-intelligence-series-the-sharing-economy.pdf.

During the semester two unexcused absences of a student are allowed. There may be no more than three consecutive absences.

In the event of an unsatisfactory grade, a student may proceed to final resit in a retake session.