SOCIOLOGY OF NETWORKS AND DIGITAL ECONOMY

Module Digital media and communication

The course takes place essentially throught frontal lessons, with extensive use of tools for student involvement: questions for the verification of concepts, collective discussion about analysis of cases histories, digital tools for involvement and participation. 

Module A

Digital life: platform, people, values:

The first part of the program illustrates the shape and social dynamics as a consequence of platformization. The theoretical framework of the platform society allows for a discussion on the relationship between digitalization and technology and political and economic power. At a micro level, platformization, which shapes and influences everyday practices, provides an interpretative and comparative basis for discussing the ‘new’ shape of sociality online, online identities and amateur professionalism.

Module B

Networks, communities and algorithms

The second stage illustrates and introduces digital tools and methods for social sciences. A specific focus is paid to the main social platforms through the analysis of recommendation mechanisms, affordances, grammars and vernaculars of social media. A lot of attenctin is given, therefore, to case studies, in particular network communities are examined.

MODULE A – Digital life: platfom, people, values 

Stella, R., Riva, C., Scarcelli, C. M., & Drusian, M. (2014). Sociologia dei new media. UTET università. da p. 31  a p.170 

Esposito, E. (2022). Comunicazione artificiale: Come gli algoritmi producono intelligenza sociale. EGEA spa. pp. 240

MODULE B 

Reti, algoritmi e comunità. 

Caliandro, A., & Gandini, A. (2019). I metodi digitali nella ricerca sociale. Carocci. pp 170

Cantale C. (2024). Romance e Social reading. Comunità in rete tra piattaforme e algoritmi. Carocci editore. p. 170

Testi Consigliati 

Bonini, T., & Treré, E. (2024). Algorithms of resistance: The everyday fight against platform power. Mit Press.

Caliandro, A., Gandini, A., Bainotti, L., & Anselmi, G. (2024). The Platformisation of Consumer Culture: A Digital Methods Guide.

Srnicek, N., & Williams, A. (2018). Inventare il futuro: per un mondo senza lavoro. Nero.

Van Dijck, J. Poell, T. de Waal, M. Platform society. Valori pubblici e società connessa, ed. it. a cura di Boccia Artieri G.e Marinelli, A. Milano, Guerini Scientifica, 2019, pp. 340.

Zuboff, S., (2019). Il capitalismo della sorveglianza: il futuro dell'umanità nell'era dei nuovi poteri. Luiss University Press.

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All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.