CCGL9051-Technology, Culture and Power in a Globalized Age
Title
CCGL9051-Technology, Culture and Power in a Globalized Age
Subject
Global Issues
Description
This course offers a highly entertaining introduction to this interactive dynamics between TECHNOLOGY, society, and culture, situating present-day technological developments in the context of a longer history of global innovation that goes back to the industrial revolution. From flush toilets to smart robots, from washing machines to contraceptive pills, from sex toys to designer babies, from GMO crops to information technologies, the course will explore a wide-ranging number of case studies that challenge conventional ideas about technology, inviting students to develop a deeper understanding of the major social and technological forces shaping the contemporary world.
References
Ansari, A. (2016). Modern romance. Penguin Books. [Chap. 5, Online Dating]
Bonowicz, B. R. (2014). The perfect 46. [Film, 97 min.]
Cowan, Ruth S. (1985). More work for mother: The ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave. Basic Books. [Chap. 1]
Fertil, É. (2012). Living with robots. [Documentary film, 55 min.]
George, R. (2008). The big necessity: The unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters. Henry Holt and Company. [Chap.8]
Jasanoff, S. (2016). The ethics of invention: Technology and the human future. W. W. Norton & Company. [Chap. 1]
Morozov, E. (2011). The Internet in society: Empowering or censoring citizens?. RSA Animate. [Video Animation, 30 min.]
Rudrappa, S. (2015). Discounted life: The price of gobal surrogacy in India. New York: New York University Press. [Chap. 5]
Santos, G. (2017). Technological choices and modern material civilization: Reflections on everyday toilet practices in rural South China. In J. Arnason & C. Hann (Eds.), Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis. New York: SUNY Press.
Slick, W., & Omori, E. (2008). Passion and power: The technology of orgasm. [Documentary film, 74 min.]
Sternsdorff-Cisterna, N. (2015). Food after Fukushima: Risk and scientific citizenship in Japan. American Anthropologist, 117(3), 455-467.
Takeshita, C. (2011). Global biopolitics of the intra-uterine device: How science constructs contraceptive users and women’s bodies. MIT Press. [Chap. 1]
Wajcman, J. (2015). Pressed for time: The acceleration of life in digital capitalism. University of Chicago Press. [Chap. 4]
Bonowicz, B. R. (2014). The perfect 46. [Film, 97 min.]
Cowan, Ruth S. (1985). More work for mother: The ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave. Basic Books. [Chap. 1]
Fertil, É. (2012). Living with robots. [Documentary film, 55 min.]
George, R. (2008). The big necessity: The unmentionable world of human waste and why it matters. Henry Holt and Company. [Chap.8]
Jasanoff, S. (2016). The ethics of invention: Technology and the human future. W. W. Norton & Company. [Chap. 1]
Morozov, E. (2011). The Internet in society: Empowering or censoring citizens?. RSA Animate. [Video Animation, 30 min.]
Rudrappa, S. (2015). Discounted life: The price of gobal surrogacy in India. New York: New York University Press. [Chap. 5]
Santos, G. (2017). Technological choices and modern material civilization: Reflections on everyday toilet practices in rural South China. In J. Arnason & C. Hann (Eds.), Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis. New York: SUNY Press.
Slick, W., & Omori, E. (2008). Passion and power: The technology of orgasm. [Documentary film, 74 min.]
Sternsdorff-Cisterna, N. (2015). Food after Fukushima: Risk and scientific citizenship in Japan. American Anthropologist, 117(3), 455-467.
Takeshita, C. (2011). Global biopolitics of the intra-uterine device: How science constructs contraceptive users and women’s bodies. MIT Press. [Chap. 1]
Wajcman, J. (2015). Pressed for time: The acceleration of life in digital capitalism. University of Chicago Press. [Chap. 4]
Items in the CCGL9051-Technology, Culture and Power in a Globalized Age Collection
Advantages and Controversies of Nuclear Power
The student poster analyzed the advantages and controversies of Nuclear Power.
Artificial Intelligence
This poster shows the output of the group project about Artificial Intelligence.
Surveillance Technology: national security VS privacy
This poster shows the output of the group project concerning the Surveillance Technology.
CELLDAR
This poster shows the output of the group project about CELLDAR, a surveillance technology in UK.
Human Cloning: What if there was another you?
This poster shows the output of the group project about Human Cloning.
Controversy surrounding air travel
This poster shows the output of the group project about Air Travel.
Gene Therapy: therapeutic genome editing: a blessing or a curse?
This poster shows the output of the group project about Gene Therapy.
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica's Privacy Disaster
This poster shows the output of the group project about User Privacy and the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Medical Abortion: A controversial issue
This poster shows the output of the group project about Medical Abortion.
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