This course is part of digital literacy in global studies,  looks at social media and participatory culture turning the time into simultaneous and space into transnational, networked. In this seminar we will look at some examples of this change. Does social media created democratic, global public space? 

Bubles, ecco chambers? Is this open space independent from structural differences, value free and furthering equality? 

We discuss these different perspectives to grasp the role of social media in society and the tensions and ambivalent potentialities of openness and closure, their positive and negative effects. 

The course is divided into four blocks. The first one looks into what is social media, the differences between traditional mass communication and social media.  The other three blocks look into the different ways social media intersect globalization processes. We look at use of social media for different kinds of globalization projects: human rights, fascist, democratic, revolutionary, reactionary.

Semester: SoSe 2021