This module provides sociological and cultural theory perspectives on the nexus between digitalization and mobility specifically in the context of current societal transformations. It teaches a variety of central theories and texts concerned with hierarchies and freedoms at the nexus of mobilities and digitalization. Digital technologies and networks change our perception of the world and our place therein. For example, digital technologies change borders, passport systems, work arrangements as well as how friendship and family networks organize their cross-border mobilities. They create new hierarchies, but also new freedoms. This module provides insights in how to analyse mobilities and digital culture from a critical sociological perspective sensitive to power, colonialities, hybridity, entanglement and difference. Digital mobility and immobility becomes understood as part of a complex global settings which spans beyond national boundaries. Students will be introduced to a number of specialized research areas of research with reference to digitalization, digital cultures, migration, mobility and ethnicity/racialization research as well as further theories of social inequality. From a non-essentialist perspective, these address digitally generated and perpetuated social placement processes in relation to "race", class, gender, dis/ability and discuss their implications for privilege and disadvantage as well as the unequal distribution of life chances in the digital age on the basis of empirical examples.

This module provides sociological and cultural theory perspectives on the nexus between digitalization and mobility specifically in the context of current societal transformations. In the course of semester, students learn • to understand current transformations of economy, society and politics, • to reflect on how both institutions and everyday settings are co-constituted by specific patterns of mobility, both in the international and domestic • realms. • to understand and explain the central basic and advanced theoretical positions in the context of sociology of mobility, migration and digital cultures (cross-border mobilities, social inclusion and exclusion, postcolonialism, postsocialism, global and transnational relations) • to analyse and compare texts and apply their theories to social phenomena • to reflect their own positionality within the nexus mobilities and digitalization. • to present these positions and analyses in a concise manner

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Mobility and Digitalisation

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