24-408.26 Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny

Course offering details

Instructors: Dr. Monika Pater

Event type: Follow-up seminar

Displayed in timetable as: V-SEM

Hours per week: 2

Credits: 6,0

Language of instruction: German

Min. | Max. participants: 10 | 25

Registration group: Spezielle Soziologien - Seminare

Learning objectives:
Content goals

Understanding of the diversity of publics;


  • Insights into the concept of bourgeois public sphere and the respective feminist criticism;
  • Understanding of the concept of misogyny according to Manne and how to apply it to current examples;
  • Competence to discuss options ossibilities and meaningfulness of individual and institutional interventions, e.g. counterspeech and NetzDG.


Transfer goals
• Ability to conduct academic research in this area by proposing informed questions, reviewing current literature in the field, analysing data, and relating key findings to political practice.

Civic goal
• Developing a foundation for more reflective, and critical use of social media for social cohesion.

Didactic concept:
Content goals


  • Understanding of the diversity of publics;
  • Insights into the concept of bourgeois public sphere and the respective feminist criticism;
  • Understanding of the concept of misogyny according to Manne and how to apply it to current examples;
  • Competence to discuss options ossibilities and meaningfulness of individual and institutional interventions, e.g. counterspeech and NetzDG.

Transfer goals
• Ability to conduct academic research in this area by proposing informed questions, reviewing current literature in the field, analysing data, and relating key findings to political practice.

Civic goal
• Developing a foundation for more reflective, and critical use of social media for social cohesion.

Literature:
Carstensen, Tanja (2019): Social Media: Zwischen Selbstpräsentation und Unsichtbarkeit, Empowerment und Sexismus. In: Johanna Dorer, Brigitte Geiger, Brigitte Hipfl und Viktorija Ratkovic (Hg.): Handbuch Medien und Geschlecht. Perspektiven und Befunde der feministischen Kommunikations- und Medienforschung. Wiesbaden, S. 1–12 (available online via StaBi)

Manne, Kate (2018): Down Girl. The logic of misogyny. Oxford: OUP. (The complete preface, in German, is available online via google books; the English language preface unfortunately is missing some pages)

Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Th, 5. Nov. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
2 Th, 12. Nov. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
3 Th, 19. Nov. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
4 Th, 26. Nov. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
5 Th, 3. Dec. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
6 Th, 10. Dec. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
7 Th, 17. Dec. 2020 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
8 Th, 7. Jan. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
9 Th, 14. Jan. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
10 Th, 21. Jan. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
11 Th, 28. Jan. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
12 Th, 4. Feb. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
13 Th, 11. Feb. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
14 Th, 18. Feb. 2021 16:15 17:45 Digital Dr. Monika Pater
Exams in context of modules
Module (start semester)/ Course Requirement combination Exam Date Instructors Compulsory pass
24-426 Special Sociologies (WiSe 16/17) / 24-425.10  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Paper 9  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
24-426 Special Sociologies (WiSe 18/19) / 24-425.10  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Term paper 5  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
24-426 Special Sociologies (WiSe 16/17) / 24-425.11  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Paper 9  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
24-426 Special Sociologies (WiSe 18/19) / 24-425.11  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Term paper 5  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
MEdSowi-LA012 Advanced Thematic Module: Special Sociology (WiSe 13/14) / 24-612.xx  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Paper 15  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
MEdSowi-LA014 Elective in Social Sciences (WiSe 13/14) / 24-612.xx  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Paper 15  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
SowiLA-12_VMSoz Advanced Thematic Module: Special Sociology (WiSe 14/15) / 24-612.xx  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Paper 14  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
SowiLA-16_WahlSoz Required Elective Subject: Sociology (WiSe 14/15) / 24-612.xx  Public Spheres and Digital Misogyny Paper 13  Paper Time tbd Dr. Monika Pater Yes
Course specific exams
Description Date Instructors Mandatory
1. Paper Time tbd Yes
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Instructors
Dr. Monika Pater