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Digital Citizens, Media and Culture (2026/2027: Semester 2 – Spring)
Cursusdoel
Course Aim
After completing this course students are able to:
1. You will have developed sophisticated knowledge on key topics pertaining to digital citizenship, digital media and digital culture in the 21st century, informed by academic scholarship from various academic fields (e.g. media studies, political theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, visual culture studies, museum studies etc.) as well as non-academic knowledge (e.g. journalism, arts and culture, indigenous, community-based).
2. You will have developed a broad, historically and culturally situated understanding of how digitalization and algorithmification has transformed
- approaches to citizenship, top-down (e.g. governance) and bottom-up (e.g. public engagement).
- media and culture (e.g. consider media production or circulation or how technology and materiality of cultural objects shape our use and our social imaginaries etc.).
3. You will be able to conduct an independent and original piece of journalistic research on a topic of your choice related to the themes of the course.
4. You will have practiced various methodological approaches important to the digital realm (e.g. datawalk, digital ethnography).
5. You will be able to conduct an independent and original piece of academic research on a topic of your choice related to the themes of the course.
Relationship between assessment and learning goal:
After completing this course students are able to:
1. You will have developed sophisticated knowledge on key topics pertaining to digital citizenship, digital media and digital culture in the 21st century, informed by academic scholarship from various academic fields (e.g. media studies, political theory, anthropology, philosophy, sociology, visual culture studies, museum studies etc.) as well as non-academic knowledge (e.g. journalism, arts and culture, indigenous, community-based).
2. You will have developed a broad, historically and culturally situated understanding of how digitalization and algorithmification has transformed
- approaches to citizenship, top-down (e.g. governance) and bottom-up (e.g. public engagement).
- media and culture (e.g. consider media production or circulation or how technology and materiality of cultural objects shape our use and our social imaginaries etc.).
3. You will be able to conduct an independent and original piece of journalistic research on a topic of your choice related to the themes of the course.
4. You will have practiced various methodological approaches important to the digital realm (e.g. datawalk, digital ethnography).
5. You will be able to conduct an independent and original piece of academic research on a topic of your choice related to the themes of the course.
Relationship between assessment and learning goal:
- Attendance, participation, and preparation - learning goals: 1, 2, 4.
- Video presentation – learning goals: 1,2, 4
- Journalistic article – learning goals: 1,2, 3
- Term paper – learning goals: 1, 2, 5.
Vakinhoudelijk
Course Content
This course is divided into three parts: digital citizenship, digital media and journalism, and digital art and culture.
The first, foundational part of this course focuses on how digital technologies have become deeply ambient and ubiquitous in our lives, shaping our personal routines and relationships but also societal structures. As citizens, this pervasive presence translates every aspect of our existence into digital data—making our identities, behaviours, and choices trackable, categorizable, and storable. Yet, these same networks and platforms grant citizens access to a global public sphere, offering tools to foster community, voice perspectives, and shape public discourse.
In the second part of the course, we will critically analyse the profound impact of digitalization on news media and journalism: from the evolving ways in which we consume news online to the integration of generative AI in journalism to bottom-up open-source investigations – we will address the key changes of recent decades. We will also learn how to write a journalistic feature article for a digital publication and organize in-class editorial sessions for the journalistic writing assignment.
The third part of the course then turns towards digital arts and culture, historically and in contemporary times. We will address how emergent technologies are transforming various creative industries and how artists, designers, filmmakers, and internet users like you and me engage with computational media to actively reimagine the world around us. The third part usually also includes creative-practice activities (e.g. producing a zine about your research paper; political meme-making workshop, etc.).
Please note: In this interdomain course we explore these developments from various fields of inquiry such as media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, or philosophy. We will also host guest speakers from both academic and non-academic fields, for example representatives from non-profit organizations, journalism, and the arts.
Format
The course will consist of interactive lectures, seminar-style discussions and practice-based sessions (e.g. journalistic writing; creative practice). Students from all fields and tracks meeting the entrance requirements are invited to enrol and further develop their own interests in the course
This course is divided into three parts: digital citizenship, digital media and journalism, and digital art and culture.
The first, foundational part of this course focuses on how digital technologies have become deeply ambient and ubiquitous in our lives, shaping our personal routines and relationships but also societal structures. As citizens, this pervasive presence translates every aspect of our existence into digital data—making our identities, behaviours, and choices trackable, categorizable, and storable. Yet, these same networks and platforms grant citizens access to a global public sphere, offering tools to foster community, voice perspectives, and shape public discourse.
In the second part of the course, we will critically analyse the profound impact of digitalization on news media and journalism: from the evolving ways in which we consume news online to the integration of generative AI in journalism to bottom-up open-source investigations – we will address the key changes of recent decades. We will also learn how to write a journalistic feature article for a digital publication and organize in-class editorial sessions for the journalistic writing assignment.
The third part of the course then turns towards digital arts and culture, historically and in contemporary times. We will address how emergent technologies are transforming various creative industries and how artists, designers, filmmakers, and internet users like you and me engage with computational media to actively reimagine the world around us. The third part usually also includes creative-practice activities (e.g. producing a zine about your research paper; political meme-making workshop, etc.).
Please note: In this interdomain course we explore these developments from various fields of inquiry such as media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political theory, or philosophy. We will also host guest speakers from both academic and non-academic fields, for example representatives from non-profit organizations, journalism, and the arts.
Format
The course will consist of interactive lectures, seminar-style discussions and practice-based sessions (e.g. journalistic writing; creative practice). Students from all fields and tracks meeting the entrance requirements are invited to enrol and further develop their own interests in the course
Werkvormen
UCU INT 3 course
Toetsing
Attendance, participation and one exercise
Verplicht | Weging 10% | ECTS 0,75
Journalistic article
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25
Video presentation
Verplicht | Weging 20% | ECTS 1,5
Term paper
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3
*midterm FEEDBACK*
Niet verplicht
Ingangseisen en voorkennis
Ingangseisen
Er moet voldaan zijn aan minimaal één van de cursussen:
- [UCACCMET24] Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life
- [UCACCMET25] Critical Discourse Analysis
- [UCACCMET26] Formal logic for open minds
- [UCACCMET27] Critical Discourse Analysis and Positionality
- [UCACCMET2D] Qualitative Research Techniques
- [UCACCMET2J] Making Sense of Data: Programming for Research
- [UCACCWRI21] Creative Writing
Voorkennis
Any level 2 HUM or SSC course
Voertalen
- Engels
Competenties
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Academisch schrijven
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Debatteren / discoursanalyse
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Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
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Interdisciplinariteit
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Kritisch lezen
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Leren In Community’s
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Onderzoeksvaardigheden
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Presenteren
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Samenwerken
Cursusmomenten
Gerelateerde studies
Tentamens
Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus
Verplicht materiaal
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READERReader
Aanbevolen materiaal
Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend
Opmerkingen
Counts toward HUM and SSC major; track finisher for MES.
Coördinator
| N. Köll MA | N.Koll@uu.nl |
Docenten
| N. Köll MA | N.Koll@uu.nl |
Inschrijving
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