Digital sociology…. Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the sociological sub-field of Digital Sociology. It looks at and seeks to critically examine the pervasiveness of “digitality” over everyday life, overstructuring social institutions and global actors, and their interconnections and relational pathwaysor networks. It takes classical and modernsociological frameworks, methods, and theories that students may have previously been exposed to and applies (and “upgrades”) them to the study of digitality: i.e. Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Castells, Foucault, Marx, Mills, and Goffman. It also explores contemporary sociological frameworks, methods, and theories that are being used to study issues inor related to digitality, such as: methods; data collection; participatory and/or performative academic engagement; bullying/cyberbullying; personalized medicine; genetics/risk; “somaticcitizenship”; self-tracking; mediation; and virtual mapping. The course seeks to make visible theaffects, culture, and material of digitalization for sociology, and give a practical ‘tool kit’ for engaging sociologically with (digitalized) life. Learning Outcomes/Objectives/Goals/Expectations OF COURSE: I have developed the course to address several learning outcomes. By the end of the course a successful student should: 1. Be introduced to the sub-field of Digital Sociology. 2. Have the ‘tool kit’ to analyze how classical and modern sociological frameworks, methods, and theories can be applied to the study of digitality. 3. Have the ‘tool kit’ to upgrade classical and modern sociological frameworks, methods, and theories in order to study issues in or related to digitality. 4. Explore from a sociological perspective issues in digitality such as bullying/cyberbullying, personalized medicine, “somatic citizenship,” self-tracking, and mediation. 5. Be introduced to a number of contemporary sociological frameworks, methods, and theories that are being applied and used to the study digitality. 6. Have gone through the process of proposing, writing, and presenting to one’s peers a piece of original scholarship. 7. Have gained practical tools for engaging sociologically with (digitalized) life THE PAPER MUST BE AN: ARUGMENTATIVE ESSAY What to write about… a topic that is discussed in these readings. The paper must be a critical analysis of these topics and how it effects our current and future societies pertaining to the digital world and techonology. You must compare and contrast the theorists and aDD your opinion which will be your thesis of the paper. You must argue your thesis through out the paper and support your thesis with theorists, findings and scholarly work. If possible use theorist mentioned in the course description. THESIS must be CLEAR SOURCES…YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE FOUR FROM HERE…..AND FOUR FROM OTHER source… ACADEMIC SOURCES ONLY… …NO MAGAZINsE, NO Tv shows etc… boyd, danah. “Networked Privacy.” Surveillance & Society 10.3/4 (2013): 348-350. boyd, danah. It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014 boyd, danah and Nicole Ellison. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 13.1 (2007): article 11. Ellison, Nicole and danah boyd. “Sociality through Social Network Sites.” The Oxford Books (all by Sherry Turkle): Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology andLess from Each Other (2011); The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit(20thAnniversary Edition, 2005); and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (1995). Turkle, Sherry. “Multiple Subjectivity and Virtual Community at the End of the Freudian Century.” Sociological Inquiry 67. 1 (1997): 72-84. INCLUDE WORK CITED PAGE AND REFERECING THROUGHOUT PAPER APA STYLE. The course paper should be approximately 3500 words (15 pages double spaced)
