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[ 994SSTISDDS22 ] SE Social science debates and theories on digitalization, gender and social inequalities
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3 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year Social Science Roland Atzmüller 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
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Original study plan Master's programme Digital Society 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
  • Students apply basic feminist and intersectional theories and concepts from international debates on societal digitalization processes to analyze current issues and can work out how these processes affect human behavior.
  • Students have selected empirical and theoretical knowledge of structural and institutional societal developments and issues resulting from digitalization processes, focusing on the relationship between digital transformation of society, gender relations, and social inequalities based on gender, ethnicity, and class.
  • Students can analyze current empirical issues of digitalization processes and critically reflect on action-relevant concepts.
Skills Knowledge
  • Students can develop and reproduce key terms and theoretical concepts from feminist and intersectional debates on digitalization processes and technological developments through independent reading of primary and secondary literature (K1, K2).
  • Students are able to discuss the acquired knowledge and relate it to each other (K3, K4).
  • Students can apply feminist and intersectional theories and concepts from technology studies to current societal issues resulting from digitalization, analyze them, and gain a deeper understanding (K3, K4).
  • Students can discuss feminist and intersectional scientific questions about current processes and issues related to digitalization based on selected theoretical terms and concepts and critically assess action-relevant options (K4).
  • Students have advanced knowledge of selected debates, theories, and approaches in feminist and intersectional technology studies, as well as other sociological theories and research that address the relationship between digital transformation, gender relations, and social inequalities based on gender, ethnicity, and class.
  • Students are familiar with international debates on digitalization, power, and domination, and have knowledge of technology development and deployment, as well as their relevance to inequalities in various areas of work and life, such as the sociological study of technological fields (robotics, new media, etc.) from a feminist and intersectional perspective.
  • Students have knowledge of transformations in gender, ethnicity, and class relations that accompany the digital transformation of society.
  • Students have theoretical and empirical knowledge from a feminist and intersectional perspective on selected fields of digitalization (social media, AI, platforms, etc.).
Criteria for evaluation Varying: e.g. active participation, oral presentation, discussion, written papers
Methods Varying: e.g. interactive discussions in different formats (working groups, fish bowl, role play etc.), oral presentations (short lectures, poster session etc.), written papers (seminar reports, in case of given opportunities: conference reports, book reviews, interviews etc.)
Language German
Study material will be announced in the lecture
Changing subject? No
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 30
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority