Digital Society

We now spend much of our time in digital spaces, Whether we are shopping online, playing a game on our smartphones, collaboratively editing a document, or chatting remotely with our friends and family, we rely on digital technologies for entertainment, communication, and work. These digital spaces and digital activities provide opportunities for organizing our society in new and more, productive ways, enhancing our abilities to understand and relate to one another, improving democratic participation, and gaining greater knowledge of the world around us. However, they also post significant challenges for privacy, for social equality, and for fairness and justice. As such this module will focus on:

• The rise of computing and its social impact;
• Introduction to software and critical approaches to software;
• Understanding networking and its social and cultural impacts;
• Introduction to Data Science and Big Data (including critical approaches to Big Data),