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MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
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Learning outcomes
1.
Understand the different conceptual and theoretical approaches in social science to explain the roles of technology in politics and society.
2.
Apply and evaluate social science conceptual or theoretical approaches to explain the range of technology roles in political and social contexts.
3.
Critically identify and interpret relevant empirical material.
4.
Critically reflect on the interactions between technology, society and politics at different levels.
5.
Communicate arguments and ideas across different formats.
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Unit content:
- Introduction: How does technology shape our politics and society?
- Algorithmic logics, institutions, and cultures
- The future of education, work and migration
- Automated decision-making in government institutions
- Security, surveillance and violence
- Political communication and the public sphere
- Participation, social movements and online activism
- Nascent and emerging technologies
- Approaches to technology governance
- Methods: What is socio-technical research? How to do it?
- Methods: Computational social science
- Reflections: The future, Indigenous Data Sovereignty and decolonial approaches