Digital Disruption Social Sciences Program Fall 2022 Semester - Budapest

The course clarifies diverse (technological, economic, social, environmental) aspects of the digitalization induced disruption(s). It embraces various, often controversial tendencies connected to new aspects that accelerating digitalization generates ? such as improved and potentially empowering access to internet enabled information and knowledge, on the one hand, and the growing impact of manipulative pressures like explosion of fake news and increasing echo chamber impacts created by intense usage of social media, on the other.

Corvinus University of Budapest awards credits based on the ECTS system (2 ECTS credits equals 1 U.S. credit therefore, 6 ECTS credits is equivalent to 3 U.S. credits). At Corvinus University of Budapest, all classes meet for a minimum of 180 minutes per week. Contact hours are calculated through a combination of lecture hours and outside activities which can include (workshops, seminars, fieldwork activities, guest lectures, and independent work) therefore, contact hours may vary on syllabi