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240525 SE MM3 Digital Identities and Socialities (2025S)

Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

Participation at first session is obligatory!

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). The plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used.
The use of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT) for the attainment of partial achievements is only allowed if explicitly requested by the course instructor.

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 06.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 20.03. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 03.04. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 08.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 22.05. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 05.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
  • Donnerstag 26.06. 15:00 - 18:15 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

In this course, students learn about different forms of identity and sociality, which have been enabled through digital media technologies.

Digital media and technologies allow for the construction of new forms of sociality and communiality. They have been changing how we live, work, love and learn. How we engage with each other on a daily basis. Different forms of identity construction, negotiation and transformation become crucial here. What kind of identity concepts can be used to describe these new phenomena? How to analyze new individual and collective identities on the internet? Where are the boundaries of theoretical and analytical concepts, such as community and network?

Students conduct their own empirical projects and by engaging with different case studies they get an overview about digital identity, sociality and communality. The university’s online learning management system is used to provide resources and content as well as to foster student's exchange and communication beyond the classroom.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Course assessment comprises a paper at the end of the semester (50%), the presentation of research projects (20%) and the active participation during the course by reading and discussing selected literature (30%).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

All assignments have to be completed to successfully pass the course. Course attendance is mandatory.

90% - 100 % Sehr gut (1, Excellent)
80% - 89,9 % Gut (2, Good)
66% - 79,9 % Befriedigend (3, Satisfactory)
50% - 65,9 % Genügend (4, Sufficient)
< 50 % Nicht genügend (5, Insufficient)

Prüfungsstoff

See above.

Literatur

Selected Literature (reading list will be provided in 1st class)

• Alcoff, L. M. & E. Mendieta. (Eds.). (2003). Identities: Race, class, gender and nationality. Blackwell.
• Bell, B., Budka, P., & Fiser, A. (2012). “We were on the outside looking in” – MyKnet.org: A First Nations online social environment in northern Ontario. In A. Clement et al. (Eds.), Connecting Canadians: Investigations in community informatics (pp. 237-254). Athabasca University Press.
• Brubacker, R., & F. Cooper. (2000). Beyond “identity”. Theory and Society 29: 1-47.
• Gehl, R. W. (2015). The case for alternative social media. Social Media + Society, 1(2).
• Moore, H. L. (2012). Avatars and robots: The imaginary present and the socialities of the inorganic. Cambridge Anthropology, 30(1), 48–63.
• Postill, J. (2008). Localising the internet beyond communities and networks. New Media and Society 10 (3): 413-431.
• Postill, J., & Pink, S. (2012). Social media ethnography: The digital researcher in a messy web. Media International Australia, 145(1), 123–134.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Do 06.03.2025 12:47