Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

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    Digital Way of Living

    A tantárgy neve magyarul / Name of the subject in Hungarian: Digitális életmód

    Last updated: 2025. január 21.

    Budapest University of Technology and Economics
    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

    Degree in Computer Engineering
    Degree in Electrical Engineering
    BSc course
    Compulsory optional subject
    Economic and human sciences 
    Course ID Semester Assessment Credit Tantárgyfélév
    VITMAK49   2/0/0/f 2  
    3. Course coordinator and department Heszberger Zalán Tamás,
    Web page of the course Digital Lifestyle
    4. Instructors
    Name:Aff:Department:
    Bíró, József, PhDfull professorTMIT
    Heszberger, Zalán, PhDassoc. professorTMIT
    5. Required knowledge Basic knowledge of using IT tools, basic social skills, basic statistical skills
    6. Pre-requisites
    Ajánlott:
    There is no compulsory prior learning.  
    Recommended prerequisites: Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BMEVIETAK49)
    7. Objectives, learning outcomes and obtained knowledge
    To familiarise students with the characteristics and expected changes in lifestyles based on digital technology, using infocommunication, information technology tools and information society technologies, in order to develop new information technology products and services that reach the appropriate segments of society and serve the satisfaction of users. Major themes of the course:

    - Characteristics of digital lifestyles and ways of studying them
    - The digital lifestyle: characteristics, characteristics, characteristics of the digital lifestyle
    - Specific aspects of the digital lifestyle
    - Impacts, changes, expected trends
    8. Synopsis
    1. Definition of the subject, terminology, fields, methods of investigation. Stakeholder census, motivations of speakers and participants in relation to the subject
    2. Digital lifestyle on the Internet: controlled chaos
    3. Digital currencies: the social present and future of cryptocurrencies. The economic impact
    4. Digital complexity: The complex systems approach and its impact on society
    5. Digital Citizen: on-line learning, shopping, administration, leisure. Digital natives and immigrants, generational differences. Display of private content: bloggers, chatters
    6. Digital working, digital nomads: remote working, tracking, presence in the world of work, technology dependency, online work organisations, student work
    7. Digital footprint and privacy (PET technologies)
    8. Social networks, virtual communities. Virtual reality.
    9. Digital illiteracy, digital divide and its effects.  Equal opportunities issues, culture-specific responses. 10. 11. Inclusion programmes, community access points, bridging the knowledge gap
    12. Methodologies of empirical studies, Hungarian and international data. Readiness indices (technology diffusion, barriers and enablers)
    13. Time management in work and private life, relationship management in the digital age, digital hermits, the importance of remote connections
    14. Unsolicited and online solicitation, online crime, law enforcement, online terrorism, how to protect yourself. Confidence and caution when using online tools.
    15. Remembering and forgetting. Past, present and future in the digital world.
    16. Online games. Positive and negative externalities of networks. Reflection of social networks in electronic interactions
    17. Changes in behaviour and ability to influence. Surveillance studies. Normality and deviance in the digital world
    18. Impact of emerging technologies, future perspectives, summary 
    9. Method of instruction Lectures
    10. Assessment
    During the school term: 
    - Compulsory attendance at one of the lectures agreed at the beginning of the semester.
    - One essay to be written during the semester: a short elaboration of one of the topics covered in the course. The essay must be submitted no later than the end of the term. The assessment of the assignment will range from 0 to 10 points, and must be worth at least 4 points to be accepted.
    During the examination period: no examination, the subject ends with a mid-term mark
    Preliminary examination: none
    Method of determining the grade: 
    - The mark will be based on the number of points in the submitted essay: 
    - of which: unsatisfactory 0-3 points, satisfactory 4 points, medium 5-6 points, good 7-8 points, excellent 9-10 points
    11. Recaps The mid-term assignment may be handed in late until the end of the mid-term week, subject to the payment of a special procedure fee.
    12. Consultations After the lectures and by prior arrangement at the time indicated by the speakers.
    13. References, textbooks and resources
    No required literature

     

    Recommended literature:

    The emergence of the network society. Gondolat, 2005, ISBN 9789639567931

    PATHS (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-47545-1)

    The Economy Machine - The Economics of Sustainable Development, 2019, L'Harmattan, ISBN 9789634140771

    The Power of Identity. Gondolat, 2006, ISBN 9639610429

    The end of the millennium. Gondolat, 2007, ISBN 9789636930424 

    Manuel Castells: information society trilogy

    Viktor Mayer - Shönberger: Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780691138619

    Pintér Róbert ed.: The Information Society (textbook); Gondolat - Új Mandátum, Budapest, 2007

    Kósa Zsuzsanna - Kömlődi Ferenc (2008).

    Chapters from the book "INFORMATICS IN THE ETERNAL WORLD: The technological perspectives of the information society", ISBN 978-963-2790-24-4, Typotex, Budapest, 2008, 1.1.2006, issue 1, No. 1, Budapest, 2008.
    14. Required learning hours and assignment

    Contact hours

    		28
    Mid-term preparation for lessons14
    Preparation for final exam
    Preparation of homework18
    Mastery of assigned written material
    Exam preparation
    Total60
    15. Syllabus prepared by
    Name:Aff.:Department:
    Bíró, József, PhDfull prof.TMIT
    Heszberger, Zalán, PhDassoc. prof.TMIT
    Kósa, Zsuzsa, PhDassoc. prof.TMIT
    Székely, Iván, PhDassoc. prof.TMIT