The Social Life of Technology

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How does the use of information technologies and bio-technologies shape our economic, social, sexual, intimate and public life? This course introduces students to feminist and critical technology studies. We read scholarship by feminist race scholars on the internet, artificial intelligence and information technologies. It surveys key debates in critical technology studies specifically the role of race, gender and identity in gaming, search engines, artificial intelligence and social media. Topics may include: robotics, data sharing, forensic bio-banks, gaming culture, algorithmic discrimination, collective mobilization, consumer genealogy databases, online dating, and race, gender and sexuality in online culture.