Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Workshop
Module Offerings
7110CRIM-JAN-MTP
Aims
- Develop the notion of ‘digital harms’ as an area of contemporary criminological relevance.
- Identify and analyse how and why digital harms proliferate.
- Critically explore regulation of digital harms and individuals resistance to digital harm.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Evidence a systematic understanding of knowledge, as well as a critical awareness and analysis, of real world harms in a digital society.
2.
Comprehensively and critically analyse the contemporary role of power, politics, and technology in relation to notions of ‘harm’.
3.
Develop and critically analyse conceptual understandings regarding the application of practical and theoretical perspectives on digital harms.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
The syllabus will conceptualise digital harms; covering technologically facilitated real world crime and crime response, moving on to consider harms associated with social media and the datafication of society.
The syllabus will conceptualise digital harms; covering technologically facilitated real world crime and crime response, moving on to consider harms associated with social media and the datafication of society.
Module Overview:
In this module you will engage with practical and theoretical perspectives surrounding contemporary understandings of harm, power, and technology. It draws upon an interdisciplinary approach to develop the criminological perspective of ‘harm’ within the context of increasingly digital, technologically mediated societies.
In this module you will engage with practical and theoretical perspectives surrounding contemporary understandings of harm, power, and technology. It draws upon an interdisciplinary approach to develop the criminological perspective of ‘harm’ within the context of increasingly digital, technologically mediated societies.
Additional Information:
The module’s interdisciplinary approach engages with aspects of alternative criminology, political theory, critical theories of technology, and historical & contemporary insights and case studies attendant to the topic; it presents students with intertwined, yet distinct, perspectives that will enhance both specific and broader applications of knowledge. By examining the topic in such a way, the module is able to reflect upon and advance contemporary, ever-developing understandings and formations of power and harm.
The module’s interdisciplinary approach engages with aspects of alternative criminology, political theory, critical theories of technology, and historical & contemporary insights and case studies attendant to the topic; it presents students with intertwined, yet distinct, perspectives that will enhance both specific and broader applications of knowledge. By examining the topic in such a way, the module is able to reflect upon and advance contemporary, ever-developing understandings and formations of power and harm.