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Digital Culture

Code 14694
Year 3
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Communication Sciences
Entry requirements not applied
Learning outcomes . The student must display the ability to interpret and to connect information about Digital Culture, the computer culture, now widely among us. The student must relate concepts and readings that allow him to comprehend digital culture, its visual, technical and theoretical domain.

. The program is presented to the students considering the relationship between images and digital culture artifacts and the conceptual body of ideas, in order to stimulate critical spirit and reflection.

. In order to be more explicit and defined, the contents for the semester, the subtopics of the program are linked to authors.
Syllabus . Digital Nation (Wilhelm)
. Future Minds And The Screenager (Watson)
. Industry 4.0 And Skills (Ustundag & Cevikcan)
. Platform Capitalism (Srnicek)
. Streaming, Sharing And Downloading (Smith & Telang)
. The Facebook-Society (Simanowski)
. Life logging: The Quantified Self (Selke)
. Free From Smartphone: Offline (Rashid & Kenner)
. The Filter Bubble (Pariser)
. After The Future (Berardi)
. Eontology: The Discourse of The Future
. The Augmented Mind (De Kerckhove)
Main Bibliography Berardi, F. (2011). After the future. Oakland, CA, US, AK Press.

Kerckhove, D. de (2010). The augmented mind 2010. Milano, Itália, 40K Books. Kindle version. Disponível em Amazon.com (2014) e www.40kbooks.com

Pariser, E. (2011). The filter bubble. New York, NY, US, Penguin.

Rashid, I., Kenner, S. (2019). OFFLINE: free your mind from smartphone, and social media stress. West Sussex, UK, Capstone, Wiley.

Selke, S. (Ed., 2016). Lifelogging. Digital self-tracking and life logging — between disruptive technology and cultural transformation. New York, NY, US, Springer VS.

Simanowski, R. (2018). Facebook society: losing ourselves in sharing ourselves. New York, NY, US, Columbia University Press.

Smith, M. D., Telang, R. (2016). Streaming, sharing, stealing. Big data and the future of entertainment. Cambridge, MA, US, MIT Press.

Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform capitalism. Cambridge, UK, Polity Press.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria
Considering the theoretical specifics of the curricular unit:

• 1 written test and 1 group work in 10 pages are taking place (50% + 50%). MARCH 19 and JUNE 4

• The students may only skip 20% of classes.

• Every student with grade between 6 and 9.5 will attend exam.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2024-03-04

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