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CCGL9051-Technology, Culture and Power in a Globalized Age
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Global Issues
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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.
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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]
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Medical Abortion: A controversial issue
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Global Issues
Technology, Culture and Power in a Globalized Age
Medical Abortion
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This poster shows the output of the group project about Medical Abortion.
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Yip Chin Kwong George
Liu Yu Qiao Barbie
Kim Jihyun
Chang Jamie
Bae Soohyun
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The students' final paper with the same theme.
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This item is made available for research and educational purposes by the University of Hong Kong.
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Factory Farming
Artificial Intelligence
Surveillance Technology: national security VS privacy
CELLDAR
Human Cloning: What if there was another you?
Controversy surrounding air travel
Gene Therapy: therapeutic genome editing: a blessing or a curse?
Facebook & Cambridge Analytica's Privacy Disaster
Plastic: Advantage and Disadvantage
Should Mobile Payments replace other payment methods in current Hong Kong?
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JPEG
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English
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CCGL-9051-2018-10
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2018/4/25
Culture
Global Issues
Technology