The course aims to analyze the concept of the Digital Revolution as a construction of modern Western thought. Actions, narratives, visions relating to the digital world therefore lend themselves to a dense analysis, capable of revealing the functioning dynamics of each society
This course aims to provide the students with the conceptual tools to understand the impact that digital technologies have on human identity and relations. In particular, the students will learn to - Understand the anthropological and moral implications that digital technological change has; - Apply these conceptual tools to some relevant cases in which we can find conflicts between digital technologies, ethical principles and social interactions; - Employ the conceptual tools to interpret specific cultural products that display and reflect on some relevant issues (for instance, multiple identities, privacy in the digital era, the relation between personal data and identity).
The purpose of the course is to provide students with the tools to address and explore various aspects of the Digital Revolution, starting from an anthropological perspective. Topics such as the narration of events, the Net as a "total social fact" will be dealt with; digital as a factor in the creation and change of national identities; the cultural hybridization that generates new panoramas. An analysis will also be carried out on the impacts that the digital technological revolution has on people's personal identity and privacy.
Lectures with the use of multimedia supports, guided discussions in the classroom, cooperative learning group activities, individual exercises
At the end of the course the student will have to:
- illustrate the theoretical and methodological concepts and references covered;
- interpret the reality of social media in an anthropological key;
- deconstruct prejudices and narratives concerning the use of social media;
- argue their own original positions;
- develop links between this teaching and other disciplines of the course of study.
The course program also includes the presentation and discussion of the following topics:
how to CONVERSATE
how to EDUCATE
how to INFORM
how to READ
how to play
in the digital field.
-S. Turkle, La conversazione necessaria, Einaudi, Torino, 2016. Altri testi consigliati: - P. Artuso, M. Codogno, Scimmie digitali. Informazione e conoscenza al tempo di Internet, Armando editore, Roma, 2018 - R. Baronciani, Nella tana del Bianconiglio. Saggio sulla mutazione digitale, effequ, Orbetello, 2014 - T. H. Eriksen, Fuori controllo. Un’antropologia del cambiamento accelerato, Einaudi, Torino, 2017 - K. Goldsmith, Perdere tempo su Internet, Einaudi, Torino, 2017 - D. Mazzucco, Propaganda pop. Il fascino del consenso nell’era digitale, Effequ, Orbetello, 2016. - D. Miller, Cose che parlano di noi, il Mulino, Bologna, 2014 - C. Tuniz, P.Tiberi Vipraio, La scimmia vestita. Dalle tribù di primati all’intelligenza artificiale, Carocci, Roma, 2018
Ricevimento: Write an email to federico.zuolo@unige.it
Ricevimento: In attendance, at a time to be determined.
FEDERICO ZUOLO (President)
SALVATORE BRUNO BARBA (President Substitute)
Second semester, starting from the first useful date of February
Oral examination
In addition to verifying the understanding of the course topics, students will be able to carry out some exercises (highly recommended but not mandatory). The classroom exercise, in the form of a presentation and critical discussion, will contribute, for those who have done it, for half of the grade to the final exam.
Students are invited to consult the materials posted periodically in the web classroom. Information on this will be provided during the lessons.
Students who have duly filed a
certification of DSA, disability or other educational needs
special requests to contact both the contact person Prof. Aristide Canepa
(aristide.canepa@unige.it) is the teacher at the beginning of the course, for
agree on teaching and examination methods which, in compliance with the
teaching objectives, take into account the methods of
individual learning and provide suitable compensatory tools
