Socio-philosophical foundations of the special course “Anti-utopias as artistic projections of the digital society risks” for master’s students of classical universities
DOI: 10.23951/2307-6127-2025-3-7-18
The aim of the article is to explicate the socio-philosophical foundations of the special course “Anti-utopias as artistic projections of the digital society risks” for master’s students of classical universities. These socio-philosophical foundations include the concept of risk society and world risk society by U. Beck; the critical theory of digitalisation and communication by D. Berry and K. Fuchs; the concept of future prediction by J. Urry; the theory of the social construction of reality by P. Berger and T. Lukmann; the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy by R. Merton; the concept of the imaginary presented in the works of J.-P. Sartre and N.N. Suvorov, as well as critical discourse analysis (CDA) by N. Fairclough. The article provides the substantiation of the timeliness of the development and implementation of the special course in the programs of Master’s degree and specialized higher education of classical universities in the context of the Russian higher education system transformation and the risky nature of the modern digital society. The article presents the tasks and thematic plan of the special course. It describes the experience of its approbation in the National Research Tomsk State University within the framework of the Master’s program “Digital Brand Management” in the direction of training 42.04.01 “Advertising and Public Relations”. The results of the special course “Anti-utopias as artistic projections of the digital society risks” approbation demonstrated the interest of master’s students in exploring the potential of anti-utopian literature to identify and structure the risks of the digital society in order to develop further strategies for their prevention and prejudice.
Keywords: higher education, classical university, master’s student, risks of digital society, social forecasting, artistic anti-utopia, socio-philosophical foundations
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