Course overview
This course provides students with an understanding of contemporary youth risks related to their digital media use in everyday life. Its key focus will be on how young people engage in and negotiate risks. How do young people navigate the gendered challenges of online dating? What are their experiences of precarity in the digital economy? From interrogating common myths like 'digital natives', to nuanced analyses of how and why young people share nudes on social media, this course moves students between an examination of theoretical and empirical accounts of contemporary youth digital cultures, concepts of risk, and broader social theories that can be used to understand and approach digital youth culture phenomena.
Course learning outcomes
- Develop a critical knowledge of key debates around youth, digital media, and risk.
- Discuss and critically evaluate real-world application of social and media concepts and theory relating to youth, digital media and risk.
- Apply digital media technologies or academic and non-academic purposes to illustrate or convey knowledge and understanding of youth, digital media and risk
- Demonstrate teamwork, leadership and communication skills.
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