Contents:

- introduction to ICT development
- e-government and e-participation
- artificial intelligence, autonomous machines
- environmental and human costs behind ICT
- social networks and personalization of content
- online election manipulation
- gender-oriented and ethnically oriented hate speech
- impact of ICT on health and relationships
- mass surveillance in democracies
- fake news and fact-checking
- Russia's system of information control
- China's digital authoritarianism

Seminar contents:

Exercises are directly related to the lectures and immediately follow them, i.e. their syllabus is identical

Recommended literature:

All study materials will be provided by the teacher in Moodle and MS Teams (articles, book chapters, documentary movies)

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar