Seminar in the Master in Business Communication
Wednesday, 08:15 to 10:00
Course code: UE-EKM.01280
Diversity of contents and services, ownership and control over digital goods, self-disclosure and surveillance, freedom of information - these topics continue to occupy the providers, users, and regulators of digital communication. From a media use perspective, they revolve around the questions of privacy and self-determination. But how do privacy and self-determination manifest themselves in everyday communicative contexts and practices? What do they mean for the users of netflix, instagram, Google Home, UberEats, or the iStore? Why do these users struggle to achieve privacy and self-determination, or even abandon them readily, and why and how might they be motivated and helped to achieve them anyway?
We will investigate these questions both theoretically and empirically, drawing on foundational texts as well as contemporary studies of digital communication and media use today.
- Enseignant·e: Thilo von Pape