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SoMe and Online Culture
Through 9 lessons, this theme or course deals with social media and their influence on people’s lives. Our focus will be on the possibilities today's social media offer and the potential consequences the use of them may have - positive as well as negative. In other words, how are we influenced by spending so much time online? There will be a written group assignment included (3 fordybelsestimer) in relation to one of the texts in the course, but you’ll hear more about that later.
The texts included in the course:
• Amy Izycky, “How jigsaws, Lego and sourdough helped the Lionesses win the Euros”, published in The Guardian, July 30, 2025 (non-fiction, article): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/30/lionesses-england-women-football-euro-2025-hobbies-piano-lego
• Eva Amin, “Social media isn’t bad: you’re just using it wrong”, TEDx Talks, 2022. (non-fiction, speech).
• "Lightbox" by Emma Cleary, printed in ”The Best British Short Stories” (Salt, 2015). (fiction, short story)
• "Black Mirror", Netflix series, "Nosedive", episode l, season 3. (fiction, tv series)
• “Bad Peter”, short film directed by Zach Strauss (2018). (fiction, short film):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYxo-uymPUY
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