The Social and Historical Co-evolution of (Communication and Information) Technologies

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This course is about how technologies and people have evolved together over time.Although we are surrounded by technologies in our daily lives we rarely consider the tremendous impacts they are having on us, the complex historical circumstances that result in the adoption and use of particular tools, and the complicated relations between technologies and society. The intention is to understand thesocial and historical co-evolution of technologies by examining theories of human behavior and society as well as research evidence in these domains. Ultimately, the goal is to generate a complete and contextualized understanding of technologies and social relations that is both historically rich and currently relevant.