| TGTU18 | Technology and Social Change, 7,5 ECTS credits. /Perspektiv på informationssamhället/ |
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Area of Education: Social Science Subject area: Technology and Social Change |
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| Advancement level
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| Aim: The course will give the students intellectual tools to analyse the interplay of information technology and society. The course will give insight in how information society develop together with technical, economical, social and political changes. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Organisation: Lectures, seminars and written assignments. The written assignments is assessed and there is also a written examination project work. |
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| Course contents: The course discuss IT as a society phenomena and how IT generally affect society. One theme through the course is to show how IT perception as much as the technology itself affect how we act, as well as how economical, social and political changes affect information technology. The course focus for example IT-culture, cyber space, broadband, e-democracy and 24-hour-authority. |
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| Course literature: - Castells, Mauel (2002), Internetgalaxen: reflektioner om Internet, ekonomi och samhälle, Göteborg: Daidalos - Woolgar, S (red. 2002), Virtual society? Technolgy, cyberbole, reality, New York: Oxford University Press - Beckman, S (1995) ”En världsbildande teknik” I Världens största maskin, Karlsson, M och Sturesson, L (red) Stockholm Carlsson. - Amnå Erik (1999) IT i demokratins tjänst. Demokratiutredningens forskarvolym VII, SOU 1999:117. Även tillgänglig på regeringens hemsida. - E-tjänster för alla. Delbetänkande av 24-timmarsdelegationen (2004), SOU 2004:56. Även tillgänglig på regeringens hemsida. - Wihlborg, E (2002), Kommunala bredbandbyggen, Linköpings universitet: Tema T-rapporter. Även tillgänglig på http://www.tema.liu.se/tema-t/aktuellt/t-rap.html - Some more articles specified later |
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| Seminar assignments written project work |
2 p 3 p |
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| Approved seminar assignments. Approved written project work. Grades are given as ‘Fail’ or ‘Pass’. For a Pass, the requrements are active participation in seminars (100 %). | |||
Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: TEMA. Director of Studies: Ulrika Andersson Examiner: Jenny Palm Link to the course homepage at the department |
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