Digital Sociology

Catalog description

Since the turn of the 21st century, human societies around the world have increasingly integrated digital technologies. In many ways, from how we date to how we discuss politics, our lives have become digitally mediated. We understand ourselves, each other, and the institutions we interact with through this mediation, resulting in changes to existing patterns and the creation of new ones. In this course, we will study some of these changes, focusing on the political economy, information flows and social movements, placing them in the context of power, inequality and technology.