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
Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the evolution of cooperation in human society.
- distinguish between biological and social bases of cooperation.
- contrast ethical and biological bases for cooperation and conflict.
- analyze the circumstances in which either cooperation or conflict emerge.
- explain social and political structures that encourage cooperation and minimize cooperation.
- compare and contrast the how social and political institutions succeed in promoting cooperation and reducing conflict.
- analyze and critique prevailing theories of the relationship between technological and social change.
- investigate and consider the sociopolitical implications of a particular technological innovation from either a moral-philosophical or empirical point of view.