1st week: lecture Digitalized Societies: Course Intro (21. 2.)

2nd week: seminar reading & discussion (28. 2.)

Emilie Munch Gregersen et al. 2023. ´Digital dependence: Online fatigue and coping strategies during the COVID-19 lockdown´. Media, Culture & Society. Vol. 45(5) 967–984
Marie Heřmanová. 2022. ´Politicisation of the Domestic: Populist Narratives About Covid‐19 Among Influencers´. Media and Communication. Vol. 10(4) 180–190.

3rd week: lecture Theory of New Media (6. 3.)

4th week: seminar reading & discussion (13. 3.)

Vilem Flusser. 1983/2000. “The Apparatus” (chapter) in Towards the Philosophy of Photography, 21-32- submission of reading reflection
Mühlhoff, R. (2020). Human-aided artificial intelligence: Or, how to run large computations in human brains? Toward a media sociology of machine learning. New Media & Society, 22(10), 1868-1884

5th week: lecture Identity, Online Environment and Social Networks (20. 3.)

6th week: seminar reading & discussion (27. 3.)

Michelle Gorea. 2021. ´Becoming Your “Authentic” Self: How Social Media Influences Youth’s Visual Transitions´ Social Media + Society, 1–12.
Mitchell Hobbs, Stephen Owen & Livia Gerber. 2017. “Liquid love? Dating apps, sex, relationships and the digital transformation of intimacy”, Journal of Sociology, 52(2), 271-284 - submission of reading reflection

7th week: lecture Political Movements, Xenorasism & Polarization (3. 4.)

8th week: seminar reading & discussion (10. 4.) & How to Write a Good Academic Essay?

Roza Tsagarousianou. 2023. ´The Datafication of Migrant Bodies and the Enactment of Migrant Subjectivities: Biometric Data, Power and Resistance at the Borders of Europe´. Media, Culture & Society. 1-18. (online first)

Ging, Debbie. 2017. ‘Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere’. Men and Masculinities 22(4):638–57. doi: 10.1177/1097184X17706401.

OPTIONAL 11. 4. Robotic Workshop in National Technical Library (9.00-11.00)

9th week: guest lecture by Martin Tremčinský “(Hidden) Labour in Digital Capitalism” (17. 4.)

watch the video essay “Cycles of Labour: In Metaverse, We All Will Be Housewives”

10th week: lecture & discussion Digital Economy (24. 4.)

11th week: 1. 5. National Holiday (essay draft submission)

12th week: 8. 5. National Holiday (essay draft submission)

13th week: seminar consultations of essays (15. 5.)

students are meeting in newly established groups based on the choice of the essay´s theme
before the consultation: each student submits the title and the goal(s) of the essay & two academic references out of the seminar reading list