Overview
Description
Explores the nature and history of data as an epistemological innovation from the advent of language to modern “Big Data” IT infrastructures. Using theories of technological change, we consider social and political implications.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Core
CO9
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain how advances in information technology relate to crucial challenges for public policy and governance.
- explain the fundamentals of information theory and binary digit-based information systems.
- employ technology-savvy reasoning methods in their own examinations of social issues.
- describe how scientific and technological developments affect society and relate to social change.
- identify the historical, economic, cultural, and/or societal impacts of revolutions in information technology.
- analyze the ethical concerns of such issues as surveillance, privacy, automated data analysis and decisions impacting individuals and communities.
- articulate ways in which society is transformed by information technology.
- integrate, synthesize, and apply knowledge of the relationship between information technology and societal issues.