Digital Dismodernity: Inclusion and the Diagnostic Society
Course code
AISS.500
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Digitaalne dismodernsus: kaasav ja diagnostiline ühiskond
Course title in English
Digital Dismodernity: Inclusion and the Diagnostic Society
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The course aims to promote discussion on the ethical reaches of contemporary society and its digital and postdigital development through critical, up-to-date views on diversity, inclusion, diagnostic ideas and practices, established norms, and the concept of dismodernity.
Brief description of the course
A specific focus is laid on the history, ideas, power relations, public notions, and representations of disability and ableness in today’s Western societies and media. While the students construct an informed, personal relationship to disability and the ways in which it is produced and reproduced in digital interactions, they will reflect on the potential of enhancing future services and social environments on the basis of inclusive and diversity-oriented approaches. The course structure includes lectures, group work, and written or design concept assignments on online learning platforms.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- can recognise, specify and analyse the uses, meanings, and effects of the concepts of diagnosis, normal, abnormal, hypernormal, disability, and dismodernity in contemporary culture;
- perceives the historical trajectories and cultural statuses of disability and functional diversity in society and understands how these phenomena are diagnosed, constructed, defined and deconstructed in social and digital interactions;
- comprehends how diversity and inclusion are linked to sustainability and can independently envision and suggest more sustainable and ethical ways to design digital and postdigital services and operating cultures.
- can recognise, specify and analyse the uses, meanings, and effects of the concepts of diagnosis, normal, abnormal, hypernormal, disability, and dismodernity in contemporary culture;
- perceives the historical trajectories and cultural statuses of disability and functional diversity in society and understands how these phenomena are diagnosed, constructed, defined and deconstructed in social and digital interactions;
- comprehends how diversity and inclusion are linked to sustainability and can independently envision and suggest more sustainable and ethical ways to design digital and postdigital services and operating cultures.
Teacher
Riku Roihankorpi
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