Information Resilience - Navigating Complexities of the Digital World
Course code
YID7019.YM
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Course title in Estonian
Säilenõtkus infoühiskonnas - kuidas navigeerida digimaailmas
Course title in English
Information Resilience - Navigating Complexities of the Digital World
ECTS credits
6.0
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lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester
Katrin Tiidenberg (language of instruction:English)
lecturer of 2025/2026 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to collaboratively identify and address specific problems related to digital and informational vulnerability and resilience, employing the five stages of project-based learning: discovery, interpretation, ideation, prototyping, and evolution.
Brief description of the course
Students will explore the information-, and opinion cultures within the digitally saturated and socially mediated communicative space (topics: entanglement of legacy and social media; attention ecology and attention economy; affective networked publics; propaganda, misinformation and disinformation; media, digital and critical literacies; trust and polarization; role of media and public value; media regulation).
The exploration will follow the 5 phases of project and problem based learning, meaning that students will not only learn about digital and informational vulnerability and resilience as a condition shaping current social and political life, but they will also learn and get hands on experience with problem solving based design thinking techniques, principles of teamwork, project-, and time management, practical innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.
Students will form teams of 5 persons, come up with a specific PROBLEM in the realm of digital and informational vulnerability and resilience that they want to work on (and that the team supervisor will think is feasible to address), build PROJECTS to solve those problems. The project work will follow the five stages of discovery, interpretation, ideation, prototyping and evolution.
The exploration will follow the 5 phases of project and problem based learning, meaning that students will not only learn about digital and informational vulnerability and resilience as a condition shaping current social and political life, but they will also learn and get hands on experience with problem solving based design thinking techniques, principles of teamwork, project-, and time management, practical innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.
Students will form teams of 5 persons, come up with a specific PROBLEM in the realm of digital and informational vulnerability and resilience that they want to work on (and that the team supervisor will think is feasible to address), build PROJECTS to solve those problems. The project work will follow the five stages of discovery, interpretation, ideation, prototyping and evolution.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has an overview of the different aspects and actors as a result of which informational and digital vulnerability has become prevalent;
- has experience with trying to solve a complex mediated social problem via project based teamwork;
- has acquired the process of project and problem based learning (five phases);
- is capable of connecting and analyzing project goals and solutions from multiple perspectives;
- uses the knowledge acquired during project work and recognizes the opportunities to use them;
- knows and is capable of applying the principles of teamwork, including role division, responsibility taking, contributing to group efforts and has acquired time management skills;
- analyzes the progress and results of the project, critically assessing their own activities and taking steps to improve where needed;
- can self-reflect on their own and other people’s role and responsibilities in reaching project goals.
- has an overview of the different aspects and actors as a result of which informational and digital vulnerability has become prevalent;
- has experience with trying to solve a complex mediated social problem via project based teamwork;
- has acquired the process of project and problem based learning (five phases);
- is capable of connecting and analyzing project goals and solutions from multiple perspectives;
- uses the knowledge acquired during project work and recognizes the opportunities to use them;
- knows and is capable of applying the principles of teamwork, including role division, responsibility taking, contributing to group efforts and has acquired time management skills;
- analyzes the progress and results of the project, critically assessing their own activities and taking steps to improve where needed;
- can self-reflect on their own and other people’s role and responsibilities in reaching project goals.
Teacher
Katrin Tiidenberg