Digital Objects, Internet Cultures, and Epistemic Authority

  • Teaching

    Details

    Faculty Faculty of Humanities
    Domain Interdisciplinary
    Code UE-L26.00336
    Languages English
    Type of lesson Lecture
    Level Master
    Semester SS-2026

    Schedules and rooms

    Summary schedule Tuesday 13:15 - 15:00, Hebdomadaire (Spring semester)

    Teaching

    Responsibles
    • Jobin Anna
    Teachers
    • Jobin Anna
    Description

    This course examines how digital infrastructures, online cultures and social practices intersect to shape public narratives about credible knowledge in contemporary societies. It focuses on how today's information environments are simultaneously structuring, and structured by, technology, social actors, and epistemic norms. As a reading seminar, the course is built around three recent scholarly books that will be read and interrogated in detail. Over four in-person sessions with compulsory attendance and asynchronous work in between, we will follow the citations, explore the case studies, and connect insights to adjacent scholarship. Students are expected to do significant work at their own pace in between sessions.
    Available seats 10
    Softskills No
    Off field Yes
    BeNeFri No
    Mobility No
    UniPop No

    Documents

    Bibliography

    Donovan, Joan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg. 2022. Meme Wars: The Untold Story of the Online Battles Upending Democracy in America. New York: Bloomsbury publishing.

    Phillips, Whitney, and Ryan M. Milner. 2021. You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

    Tripodi, Francesca Bolla. 2022. The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Dates and rooms

    location: PER-21, room A420

    Date Hour Type of lesson Place
    24.02.2026 13:15 - 15:00 Cours
    24.03.2026 13:15 - 15:00 Cours
    21.04.2026 13:15 - 15:00 Cours
    19.05.2026 13:15 - 15:00 Cours
  • Assessments methods

    Continuous evaluation and written exam - Outside session

    Assessments methods By rating
  • Assignment
    Valid for the following curricula:
    Digital Society 30 [MA]
    Version: SA23_MA_P2_en_V01
    DSS 2 - Theories and case studies
    Digital Society 90 [MA]
    Version: SA25_MA_PA_en_vo1
    DSS 2 - Theories and case studies