Digital Sociology 3500-SCC-SCw

He digital revolution unfolding on our eyes not only affects visible changes in the patterns of production and consumption of goods and services, the global acceleration of information transmission, or the formation of so-called. culture "instant", but largely reorganizes the labor market and education, allowing access to knowledge and remote work for residents of even the most remote corners of the world. It is worth considering whether, and if so, how the progressing digitalization changes the existing social relationships in various spheres of our lives, ranging from the relationship between the social actors themselves, through new forms of cooperation at the macro level (platformisation, sharing economy), for a look at new forms of research into the social world within the emerging paradigm of digital sociology.

The aim of the lecture will be to familiarize students with key theoretical concepts describing the new digital reality in the world of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as the era of robots. In the course of the lecture students will acquire a set of instruments necessary to study and analyze various social phenomena in the world of ICT and will learn to apply these concepts to the observed dimensions of social life. During the meetings, we will focus on issues related to digital sociology, as a newly emerging scientific discipline (block I), social history of new digital technologies (block II), sociological approach to economic changes that are a context for the analysis of the digital society, and the specificity of social relations in the era economy 4: 0 (block IV) and the position of the social actor himself, being both the subject and the object of ongoing processes.