INFO 6341: Information Technology in Sociocultural Context

Analyzes information technology using historical, qualitative, and critical approaches. Discusses questions such as: In what ways is information technology--often portrayed as radically new--actually deeply historical? How do information technologies represent and intervene in debates and struggles among people, communities, and institutions? How is the design of information technology tools entangled in the realms of law, politics, and commerce? In what ways are the social consequences of information technologies produced as much by the claims we make about the technologies as about the raw functionality of the tools themselves? This course investigates these issues through the lenses of long-standing debates and current controversies.

Offered: Fall

Prerequisites: permission of instructor

Grade Options: let or S/U

Credit Hours: 4 credit.

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