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