Sociology of Digital Technologies

Catalog description

How do information technologies and digital platforms inform, shape and mediate our social, cultural, economic and political lives? This course surveys debates and introduces core concepts in critical technology studies. This considers how power, privilege, and protest operate in contemporary digital culture. It explores the digital environments in which we live, love, work, play and organize. Topics covered include artificial intelligence, algorithmic oppression, digital networks, digital praxis, race and digital technologies, black technoculture, data colonialism, and protest movements across digital platforms.