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Digital Citizenship (KMS/DEDCT)


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Pilot domain:
ECTS credits:
7
Mode of delivery:
Virtual
University:
Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Contact:
Jaroslav Franc
Contact 2:
Martina Buráňová
Language:
Study cycle:
Additional info
Summer semester course
Faculty:

SDG:
Course credit:
Yes
Free course:
Yes
Aurora competence framework:

Start date:
2025-02-10
End date:
2025-05-31
Application start:
2024-11-18
Application deadline:
2025-01-15

This course focuses on creating awareness about digital rights, responsibilities, and ethics, aiming to equip students for the digital environment to become informed and safe participants in the online community. This course is to explore the theoretical foundations of digital communication and understand how digital and hybrid media theories interpret the historical and current roles of user-centric media. Moreover the course provides essential knowledge about the digital world and the consequences of the development of internet users’ daily lives.
This course aims to develop critical thinking and self-reflection skills among students in the digital environment, enabling them to become active, informed, and responsible participants in the online community.

Content of the course:
1. Digital world sensitizing concepts.
2. Digital public sphere – online privacy and security.
3. Deep mediatization (changes in the dynamics of online world).
4. Digital identity (from “qualified self” to digital narcissism) – online footprint.
5. Digital citizenship
6. Digital Rights and Responsibilities
7. Big Data Sciencea.
8. Digital Religion.
9. Human-machine communication.
10. Research findings in the area of the digital world (netnography).
11. Algorythms and iterations.
12. Information literacy.
13. AI and its consequences

 

This course will be held fully on-line.