Checking date: 19/05/2022


Course: 2022/2023

Inter-disciplinary seminar on culture and digital society
(18401)
Bachelor in Cultural Studies (Plan: 435 - Estudio: 364)


Coordinating teacher: BRONCANO RODRIGUEZ, FERNANDO

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: Philosophy, Language, Literature Theory Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
El seminario tiene se dirige a presentar una panorámica general de la cultura en los medios digitales desde una perspectiva práctica y de estudios de caso. This seminar is devoted to present a general overview on the culture in digital media, from a practical perspective of case studies: 1. Material culture as a cultural mediation 2. Information as a basis of the contemporary technology (from cybernetics to TIC) 3. Cyber-anthropology as a new field of cultural research 4. Hybrid identities in the digital age, and the metaphor of cyborgs 5. Society in the digital age: technological gaps, and the analysis from a gender perspective 6. Cultural activism in the net: digital art, collaborative art. 7. Strategies and practices on digitalization of culture
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 60
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 40

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.