Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description This module uses blended immersive learning opportunities to introduce students to the importance of a community psychology approach to promoting community empowerment, equality, equity and social justice. Students will evaluate models and concepts of individual, community and global digital citizenship and social enterprise as a disruptive innovation. They will examine the legislative and social justice frameworks underpinning digital citizenship and social entrepreneurship. Students will engage in innovative activities (e.g. challenge based learning) to examine issues affecting individuals, communities and contemporary Irish society (e.g. sustainable development) and consider how these influence and are influenced by digital literacy and social entrepreneurship. This module supports the development of transversal skills such as digital literacy, communication, and interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration. Interdisciplinary challenge based learning will take place in collaboration with students on other DCU Futures programmes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Describe and evaluate the theoretical and practical contribution of community psychology to digital wellbeing 2. Identify and evaluate the models of digital citizenship and related concepts 3. Demonstrate critical awareness of the ways in which individual and community digital citizenship are linked to contemporary culture, society and economy. 4. Demonstrate an understanding of social responsibility and social entrepreneurship 5. Demonstrate critical awareness of digital literacy, digital citizenship and social enterprise as agents of change and tools for disruptive innovation in community settings. 6. Demonstrate the ability to integrate ideas, knowledge, concepts and understanding of community psychology, digital citizenship and social enterprise in addressing a real-world challenge focusing on sustainable development and the environment. 7. Demonstrate the ability to interpret, critically understand and express own creativity through digital media. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Community PsychologyValues and vision; power, empowerment and depowerment; prevention, promotion and social change; community, connection and participation (physical and online communities)Digital CitizenshipWhat it is? Why is it important? What does it mean to be a good digital citizen? includes related concepts of digital literacy, digital competencies, digital identity, digital culture, and digital citizen science.Being OnlineAccess and Inclusion: digital divide, digital generation gap, digital literacy, digital spaces, (in)equality and (in)equity, marginalisation (age, gender, culture, ethnicity, and disability issues); Learning and Creativity: learning through digital environments, lifelong learning, building personal / social / digital capital, developing community digital resources, key challenges (e.g. authorship and ownership); Medial and Information Literacy.Digital WellbeingOnline ethical behaviour and positive online interaction with others, empowerment; Digital Resistance (fake news, false information); Health and Wellbeing: awareness of opportunities and issues that affect wellness in the digital world (e.g. source of valuable information, false information, 'overfeed', internet addiction, ergonomics, risk assessment, misuse); ePresence, e-Identity & communication; distance, dehumanisation and radicalisation.Rights OnlineActive participation and responsible decision-making, emergence of civic tech, distribution of power and influence; Rights and responsibilities: privacy and security (e.g. personal protection, data protection, digital identity protection, safe and sustainable use),access and inclusion, freedom of expression, ethics, policing the digital world; policy and legislation; consumer awareness; consumer activism.Digital citizenship in the communityUser experience in online communities; surveillance society (including privacy, monitoring and surveillance); building community resilience by promoting positive and collaborative virtual social spaces; intercultural digital citizenship in the community.Social EnterpriseIntroduction to social entrepreneurship (how to define a social problem, understand contextual realities, develop a solution, and plan for effective deployment); Social enterprise as disruptive innovation; the social entrepreneur as an agent of change; Addressing community-based challenges through social enterprise, with a focus on sustainability and the environment; sustainable development goals. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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