Programma en vakken Digital Culture Studies

• Discourse and Interaction in the online-offline nexus
  How do we establish identities in a social world characterized by narrowly intertwined online-offline interactions? The latter we call "the online-offline nexus". First the genesis and nature of this nexus will be explained. What follows is exploring what data are available to research social (inter)action, and which research theory and methodology can be used to interpret the data. In several clinics, data are collected, discussed and analysed. The results of the analysis will be turned into a publishable article.
• Digital Culture and Climate Change
  Online environments are one of the main channels of (mis)information about climate change. At the same time, climate change is fundamentally related to issues of identity, lifestyle and consumption. While the course focuses specifically on climate change communication, its applications are broader, in terms of understanding how online communications are shaped by the environments they appear in, and how to both design effective communication strategies as well as critically counter strategies that work to misinform.
• Digital media and everyday life
  Gain an in-depth understanding of the various ways in which digital media technologies have affected the way we do things in our everyday life, and how that, in turn, has led to new forms of social organization of our society. The course begins with an introductory lecture in which the tension between technological determinism and social constructivism is explained. In the following lectures, a number of macrolevel theories are situated and discussed that describe the interplay between digital media use and the individual society.
• Digital Knowledge
  Drawing on cultural studies, media studies, and the sociology of knowledge, this course aims to understand digital culture by focusing on the role new media and technologies play in knowledge production. In practice, we investigate online cultural phenomena such as the creation and circulation of conspiracy theories on YouTube, the emergence of ‘alternative’ health experts and expertise on Instagram, and the circulation of fake news on Facebook, as well as the types of knowledge produced about ourselves (our relationships, health, etc.) through self-monitoring done with apps and wearable technologies.

Kies twee keuzevakken uit de volgende opties:

• Digital industries and infrastructures
  Pipes are buried underneath the urban roads and wires embedded into our living room wall. Infrastructures of all kinds are prone to become invisible, but the inclusion and exclusion to them are matters of social and political ordering. In this course, you will explore the infrastructure and industry of internet and mobile technologies.
  • The first section of the course engages with a critical examination on the political economy of the internet in the era of portal website, web 2.0 and in the context of media convergence.
  • Following this archaeological work, you will reflect on the cultural logic or the language of this new media. In another section, the course will discuss the politics of mobility and immobility, as well as the materiality of locative media.
  • The last section of the course will introduce the concept of Internet of Things (IoTs) and its possible cultural impact.
• Legal aspects of digital culture
  This course provides a thought-provoking introduction to the interactions of technology, law, regulation, and governance and digital culture, and a basic understanding of the challenges at these intersections.
  • Explore the ways in which law, regulation and governance shape and control digital technologies and platforms and how this affects digital culture. 
  • Look at the public and private sectors and their interaction in the domains of both formal and social justice, with the aim of getting a grounding in both the legal and political issues in play.
  • Also look at concrete legal doctrines at play in digital culture, such as data protection regulation, intellectual property law and media law. 
• Een keuzevak uit een van de andere tracks van de MA Kunst- en Cultuurwetenschappen:
  • Art and Media Studies
  • Health Humanities
  • Management of Cultural Diversity
  • Jeugdliteratuur 

Kies twee Research Skills vakken (6 ECTS) uit deze zeven opties:

• Using digital literacies
• The hybrid media system and online writing
• Ethnography and Interview
• Narratology and discursive analytical strategies
• Ethno-mining
• Anthropology and Fieldwork
• Survey Design

Je masterthesis is een research paper over een aan Digital Culture Studies gerelateerd onderwerp. 

Je volgt het vak 'Master Thesis KCW'  ter voorbereiden op het schrijven van je thesis.