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COMM-B220

Enjeux numériques de la communication

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BROCHURE

academic year

2025-2026

2026-2027

Course teacher(s)

Chelly Maes (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

Language(s) of instruction

english, french

Course content

The course aims to understand communication through its digital challenges. The goal it to provide an up-to-date overview of how digital evolutions shape and adapt how we communicate, our daily lives, and our general well-being. The goal is to put these evolutions into critical perspective by integrating recent examples. Some of the topics that will be discussed, amongst others, include social media and well-being, digital media and romantic and sexual relationships, misinformation, disinformation, and fake news, social bots and robots.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Develop the necessary knowledge regarding the communication challenges posed by digital evolutions
Develop a critical perspective on digital evolutions
Gain an interdisciplinary perspective on current questions revolving media and digital evolutions

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course consist mainly of lectures. The lectures aim to familiarize students with challenges surrounding digital evolutions, rooted in communication theory and interdisciplinary approaches (e.g., media psychology). The lectures are given by Professor Maes.

Next to these sessions, 4 exercise sessions will be guided by the assistants in which students will make a task related to the course content seen so far. In the end, students will combine the tasks in one overarching portfolio and submit the portfolio via the Université Virtuelle.

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

Academic texts will be uploaded via Université Virtuelle per class.

Course notes

Université virtuelle

Other information

Contacts

Chelly Maes: chelly.maes@ulb.be;
Juliette Jarry: juliette.jarry@ulb.be;
Eléa Baugniet: Elea.Baugniet@ulb.be

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

Personal work
written examination

Personal work

written examination

Open question with short answer

The written exam will be graded on 15 points, the remaining 5 points will be graded based on the portfolio. The written exam will include questions about theory and research discussed during the lectures.