How do technologies shape politics, and how do human interests produce particular kinds of technologies? This course will examine the life of many different kinds of technologies through the lens of human use, institutional practice, economic interests, policy, and social movements. Case studies will include the data rescue movement, smartphones and surveillance culture, Hurricane Harvey and infrastructure, inclusive/barrier‐free design, and the ethics of human enhancement, among other topics.
Ali Kenner, "PSCI 280: Technology and Politics", contributed by Ali Kenner, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 27 August 2018, accessed 25 April 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/psci-280-technology-and-politics
Critical Commentary
How do technologies shape politics, and how do human interests produce particular kinds of technologies? This course will examine the life of many different kinds of technologies through the lens of human use, institutional practice, economic interests, policy, and social movements. Case studies will include the data rescue movement, smartphones and surveillance culture, Hurricane Harvey and infrastructure, inclusive/barrier‐free design, and the ethics of human enhancement, among other topics.