21ME383 Digital Society syllabus for ME

Introduction to Digital Society:

Digital components of aconnected society

Theorizing Digital Society:

New forms of power; Dataas sociomaterial objects; Archives;Digital veillance

Digital Identities and Relationships:

Self and the Digital Society; Embodied IdentitiesinDigital Society; Bias and Privilege Digital Inequalities; Marginalised Histories; Cyborgs

Digital Spaces and Practices:

Rethinking space and surveillance in digital societies; Gender,Space,and Place in Digital Societies; Urban Informatics andSociological Imagination – Smartcities; Digital Healthcare; Mobility inDigital Society; Digital Heritage

Network Society:

The Internet as a Network; Networks and theCultural Imaginary;Inequalities in the Network Society; Information Capital;Interface Design for DiversePopulations

Re-conceptualizing Research in a Digital Age:

Information Management Data AnalysisSoftware; Large Digital Systems; Data protection and the politics of data privacy

Course outcome (Course Skill Set)

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

• Identify the ways in which digital media shape identity
• Utilize new opportunities for meaningful data collection from and using sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence
• Identify knowledge and truth amongst the abundance of information

Assessment Details (both CIE and SEE)

• The weightage of Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE) is 50% and for Semester End Exam (SEE) is 50%.
• The minimum passing mark for the CIE is 40% of the maximum marks (20 marks out of 50).
• A student shall be deemed to have satisfied the academic requirements and earned the credits allotted to each subject/ course if the student secures not less than 35% ( 18 Marks out of 50)in the semester-end examination(SEE), and a minimum of 40% (40 marks out of 100) in the sum total of the CIE (Continuous Internal Evaluation) and SEE (Semester End Examination) taken together

Continuous internal Examination (CIE)

Three Tests (preferably in MCQ pattern with 20 questions) each of 20 Marks (duration 01 hour)

4. First test at the end of 5th week of the semester

5. Second test at the end of the 10th week of the semester

6. Third test at the end of the 15th week of the semester

Two assignments each of 10 Marks

3. First assignment at the end of 4th week of the semester

4. Second assignment at the end of 9th week of the semester

Quiz/Group discussion/Seminar, any two of three suitably planned to attain the COs and POs for 20 Marks (duration 01 hours)

The sum of total marks of three tests, two assignments, and quiz /seminar/ group discussion will be out of 100 marks and shall be scaled down to 50 marks

Semester End Examinations (SEE)

• SEE paper shall be set for 50 questions, each of 01 mark.
• The pattern of the question paper is MCQ (multiple choice questions).
• The time allotted for SEE is 01 hour.
• The student has to secure minimum of 35% of the maximum marks meant for SEE.

Suggested Learning Resources:

Books

1. Lupton,D.,(2015), Digital Sociology, London, New York: Routledge

2. Gere,C., (2008), Digital Culture, 2nd Edition, London: Reaktion Books Limited

Reference Books

1. Bentkowska-Kafel, A., Cashen, T., and Gardiner, H. (Eds.) (2009), Digital Visual Culture:Theory andPractice, Bristol and Chicago: Intellect Books

2. Karaganis, J. (Ed.), (2007), Structures of Participation in Digital Culture, Social ScienceResearch Council,Columbia University Press

3. Tredinnick, L. (2008), Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in theDigitalAge, Oxford: Chandos Publishing Limited