Queering the Digital

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically evaluate the mutually constitutive relationship between technology, social structures, and discourses surrounding gender, sex, and sexuality
• apply digital methods and tools in the analysis and critique of Queer identities, histories, and discourses as they relate to technology
• reflect on and respond to your own experiences of digital culture(s) as it pertains to representation, justice, and the resistance/reproduction of social inequalities

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• methods for and approaches to Queering dominant histories, narratives, and discourses of the digital
• key debates and theories about Queer identities as they relate to digital culture
• the role of Queer identities, knowledges, and practices in challenging normative structures of gender, sex, and sexuality

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• work independently and collaboratively towards specific project aims
• communicate effectively the outcomes of analysis and research (e.g. orally, visually, in writing)

Indicative topics include:

• Disrupting narrative tropes about histories of the digital
• Myths and androcentric fallacies
• Queer theory, feminism ,and posthumanism
• Social media, social networks, and information sharing
• Political and moral economies in online discourse(s)

Teaching and learning activities will take the form of active workshops, where students work in groups to develop a critical awareness of Queer identities, histories, and methods as they relate to digital technologies past, present and future. This will include working through active discussion and debate, timetabled engagement in collaborative group work, and in-class analyses of multimedia texts.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.