Digital Culture and Communication
Are we prisoners of our own device?
What Will I Learn?
In this track we invite you to explore the overall cultural significance of the digital turn and the ways in which it transformed our mode of being, and our perception of ourselves and our reality as citizens of the 21st century. We offer you the opportunity to probe into and evaluate both the promises and perils of the contemporary era, in which digital information technology has become bound up with and engrained in everyday life and almost every aspect of our existence. Our courses cover a wide range of perspectives from the humanities, in both established disciplines like history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology and newer disciplines of digital and media studies, and deal with topics like virtual reality, gaming, digital capitalism, transmedia myth and storytelling, or cyborgs and sensory experience, and theorize various aspects of both digital phenomena and digital subjects. The Digital Culture and Media (DCM) track also shares some courses with the Philosophy track and the Middle Eastern Studies track. Courses in the track include for example: What's New in New Media, Wars Off and Online: Social Media and World Conflicts, Visual, Digital and Media Cultures, Brain, Consciousness and AI: The Mystery of the Mind.
Is It for Me?
This track is suitable for you, if you are interested in a critical and multidisciplinary understanding of the multifaceted consequences and impact of the digital revolution, that will help you get a better grasp of the nature of digitalized society, as well as the various scientific, ethical, epistemological, political and economic challenges we face as members of information society in the post-digital world.
What stands out about this track is the wide exposure you will receive to a multiplicity of digital phenomena and a variety of central issues in the digital discourse, from everyday communication and relationships on social media, or the effects of big data, to robotics and the future of humanity.
Skills that you will gain or improve in this track include becoming more learned about and aware of both immediate and far-reaching consequences and implications of digital information technologies and their transforming power and acquiring new and comprehensive insights on life, our self-identity, and our sense of reality in the digital era.
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