Dr Leslie Haddon

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Data, Networks and Society, MSc in Media and Communications, MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society), MSc in Media and Communications (Research) and MSc in Media, Communication and Development. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course is 'controlled access', meaning that there is a limit to the number of students who can be accepted. If the course is oversubscribed, offers will be made via a random ballot process, with priority given to students with the course listed on their Programme Regulations. Whilst we do our best to accommodate all requests, we cannot guarantee you a place on this course.

There are no pre-requisites for this course. Students should apply via LSE for You without submitting a statement.

Please do not email the teacher with personal expressions of interest as these are not required and do not influence who is offered a place.

The course aims to explore how information and communication technologies are experienced in everyday life. This includes examining how ICTs are socially shaped, through looking at current theoretical frameworks as well as historical and contemporary examples. The course covers such matters as the domestication of ICTs, their place in social networks and their implications for time and space. Finally, a range of potential social consequences are considered, from the specific implications for parent-child relationships to broader questions about the extent to which these technologies are changing social life.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the WT.

This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of term.

All students are expected to complete advance reading. One essay of 1500 words is recommended.

• boyd, d. (2014) It's complicated.The social lives of networked teenagers, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Byam, N. (2015) Personal communications in a digital age, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 2.
• Curren, J. (2016) The internet of dreams, in Curran, J., Fenton, N. & Freedman, D. (eds) Misunderstanding the internet (Second Edition), London: Routledge, pp.1-47.
• Eynon, R. & Geniets, A. (2016) The digital skills paradox: How do digitally excluded youth develop skills to use the internet? Learning, Media and Technology, 41(3), 463–479.
• Ito, M. (2010) Hanging out, messing around and geeking out: Kids living and learning with new media, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.
• Turkle, S. (2011) Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. New York: Basic Books. Chapter 14, pp.265-278.
• Wajcman, J. (2015) Pressed for time. The acceleration of life in digital capitalism, London: University of Chicago Press. Chapter 6, pp.137-62.

Essay (100%, 3000 words) in the ST.