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Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title Digital International Relations
Module Code LG396 (ITS) / POL1051 (Banner)
Faculty Humanities & Social Sciences School Law & Government
Module Co-ordinatorGëzim Visoka
Module TeachersMaura Conway
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 10
Pre-requisite Not Available
Co-requisite Not Available
Compatibles Not Available
Incompatibles Not Available
Repeat examination
Description

This ten-credit core module examines the cutting edge themes and debates on digital international relations. It seeks to understand how digital technology and big data shape contemporary politics. In particular, the module explores themes such as digital contention and activism in democracies and authoritarian regimes, digital wars and peace-making diplomacy, as well as digital mediation, humanitarianism, peacekeeping and peacebuilding. The module draws on interdisciplinary scholarly debates on digital politics as well as provide most up to date examples from policy and practice.

Learning Outcomes

1. Understand the evolution of international relations from analogue to digital mode
2. Develop a comprehensive understanding of key concepts and themes on digital IR
3. Learn a wide range of policy examples and practices pertaining to the digital IR
4. Make sense of the future intellectual directions and policy trends in world politics



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture22No Description
Assignment Completion100No Description
Assignment Completion128No Description
Total Workload: 250

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Analogue versus Digital International Relations

Technology and Big Data

Digital Contention

Digital Authoritarianism

Digital War

Digital Diplomacy

Digital Mediation

Digital Humanitarianism

Digital Peacekeeping

Digital Peacebuilding

Futuring Peace

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight0%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Essay4,000 words essay70%Week 12
Project1000 words policy analysis report30%Week 7
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories:
Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module.
Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List

  • Daniel R. McCarthy: 2017, Technology and World Politics, Routledge, London,
  • Annika Richterich: 2018, he Big Data Agenda: Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies, University of Westminster Press, London,
  • William Merrin: 2019, Digital War: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, London,
  • Mohamed Zayani: 2015, Networked Publics and Digital Contention, Oxford University Press, Oxford,
  • Paul Reilly: 2021, Digital contention in a divided society: Social media, parades and protests in Northern Ireland, Manchester University Press, Manchester,
  • Jan van Dijk: 2020, The Network Society, Sage, London,
  • Patrick Meier: 2015, Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response, Routledge, London,
Other Resources

None

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