Computation, Society & Culture

Catalog description

A wide-ranging survey of how computational media forms enable us to imagine and re-invent our help us to understand, interpret, and represent the past, negotiate present-day challenges, and build the future. Objects of computational exploration and analysis considered in this course will come from the sciences, education, industry, the arts, and entertainment, with the goal of understanding how computational methods cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and how advances in one area affect development in another. The course also includes study of the social, ethical, and cultural consequences of digitization, automation, artificial intelligence, and the globalized information and communication systems facilitated by computation. 001634