Students will critically discuss topics from section one (Digital technology and real life harms) or section two (Social media harms).  
Assessments focused on section 1 will analyse the digital facilitation of crime and crime response. 
Assessments focused on section 2 will analyse harms to users well being and wider threats to democracy.
The discussion will be prompt based. Students will have individual areas of discussion and have the opportunity to ask and answer questions from a group member to develop the discussion.

Podcast discussion

Using a range of theoretical perspectives, students will critically analyse potential harms resulting from data capture; exploring issues such as control, privacy, exploitation, and/or regulation. 
The written report will be based around a case study of students choosing that has been negotiated with teaching team.

Datafication harms

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.

Digital Harms - 7110CRIM

Digital Harms

Evidence a systematic understanding of knowledge, as well as a critical awareness and analysis, of real world harms in a digital society.

Develop and critically analyse conceptual understandings regarding the application of practical and theoretical perspectives on digital harms.

Comprehensively and critically analyse the contemporary role of power, politics, and technology in relation to notions of ‘harm’.