This module emerges from recent calls to examine a ‘digital turn’ in geography, whereby knowledge and information about places, spaces and people are increasingly produced with and transformed by digital technologies. It will examine the links between digital technologies, geographic space and people using examples and case studies from both Western and global south contexts. This module begins with exploring how digital technologies have proliferated every aspect of our daily lives, around work, travel, leisure, consumption, production and reproduction, in ways that are simultaneously virtual and material. This focuses on how digital technologies, infrastructures, devices, logics and methods are blurring the divides across analogue and digital spaces. It then looks at how digital technologies can simultaneously break down and reinforce inequalities along class, race, gender, sexuality through new ‘digital divides’. Finally, it examines the implications this has for producing new forms of digital citizenships and claims to social and spatial justice.

The module aims to:

1. Develop students’ understanding of the links between digital technologies, geographic space and everyday life in global north and south contexts.

2. Introduce students to current debates about how digital technologies, infrastructures, devices, logics and methods are transforming the ways we think and do geography across different scales and spaces.

3. Develop students’ ability to apply critical skills to academic texts and real-life examples and to present this through a podcast and essay.

On completion of the module, students should have acquired:

An understanding of the relationship between digital technologies, geographic space and everyday life in global north and south contexts;
	An appreciation of how digital technologies have proliferated every aspect of our daily lives, in ways that are simultaneously virtual and material;
	Knowledge of how digital technologies produce new social inequalities, citizenship and identity across different scales and spaces;
	The ability to (i) synthesise and evaluate the latest research evidence on digital geographies and (ii) use this knowledge to critically engage with the relationship between digital technologies, geographic space and everyday life as they transform each other.
	Ability to conduct independent research and to present knowledge in digital and written formats.
	Valuable creative and transferable skills in (i) conceptualizing and recording a podcast and (ii) using recording and podcasting software.