The course offers an interdisciplinary overview of research on human interactions with screen-based technologies and their influence on everyday functioning, while emphasizing that such findings are often contradictory, conceptually fragmented, and methodologically limited. Rather than presenting definitive conclusions or prescribing "good" or "bad" media habits, the course introduces students to a Critical Thinking Toolkit that helps them examine how concepts are defined, how technology use is measured, how studies are designed, and how evidence is interpreted. Each week, students analyze a topic related to screen-based behaviour and contrast empirical research with dominant public narratives, such as moral panic about "addicted" population or simplistic claims about screen time, to understand where these narratives come from, why they persist, and how they diverge from what research actually shows.
- Enseignant·e: Michal Frackowiak