059913 VO Foundations and Methods of Digital Humanism (2024W)

The examination material consists of lectures, slides, and additional materials made available by the lecturers on Moodle. Topics will include:
* the normative and epistemic commitments that the principle of “Digital Humanism” requires;
* the disciplinary roots of “Digital Humanism” research and its multidisciplinary embedding (including a discussion of what Humanism and necessary human actorship can mean today);
* the necessity to use a multitude of research methods;
* the (theoretical) challenges of integrating it into our understanding of societal change;
* the impacts on and relations with the political and economic sphere;