Mobilität und Digitalisierung

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This module provides sociological and cultural theory perspectives on the nexus between digitalization and mobility specifically in the context of current societal transformations. It teaches a variety of central theories and texts concerned with hierarchies and freedoms at the nexus of mobilities and digitalization. Digital technologies and networks change our perception of the world and our place therein. For example, digital technologies change borders, passport systems, work arrangements as well as how friendship and family networks organize their cross-border mobilities. They create new hierarchies, but also new freedoms. This module provides insights in how to analyse mobilities and digital culture from a critical sociological perspective sensitive to power, colonialities, hybridity, entanglement and difference. Digital mobility and immobility becomes understood as part of a complex global settings which spans beyond national boundaries. Students will be introduced to a number of specialized research areas of research with reference to digitalization, digital cultures, migration, mobility and ethnicity/racialization research as well as further theories of social inequality. From a non-essentialist perspective, these address digitally generated and perpetuated social placement processes in relation to "race", class, gender, dis/ability and discuss their implications for privilege and disadvantage as well as the unequal distribution of life chances in the digital age on the basis of empirical examples.