Sociology

The course aims to investigate and learn about the processes of digitization and sociotechnical work of platforms that affect all fields of social life, with reference to the following fields: work, education, health, entertainment, sexuality, games, policies; etc. In particular, the course aims to provide theoretical and empirical tools to study, understand, interpret, and improve the complex phenomena mediated by the digitization and platformization of social life. 1. Knowledge and understanding: After taking the examination, the student should be familiar with the main research concerning the digitisation and platformisation processes of social fields with particular reference to the fields of work, education and health. 2. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having passed the exam students should be able to put labor market topics into a theoretical context and project empirical research on these topics. 3. Students will improve their critical skills to develop their own points of view as well as critical capacity on the topics studied through active participation in group exercise and debates, as well as preparing both individual and group presentations. 4. Communications skills. Students will improve their capacity to communicate the knowledge learned through individual and group presentations on the topics studied and participating in collective debates. 5. Learning skills. Students should improve the capacity to keep up their studies on the topics of this course through the ability acquired to connect concepts, theories and phenomena This ability may be developed through the explicit presentation of these connection, tested through exercises on specific case studies. At the end of the course, students should be able to autonomously explore issues related to the digitisation processes of social fields.