SOC 462Technology and Inequality

Students in this course will explore the relationship between technology and inequality - not only in digital and online platforms, but also in the invisible politics of software, hardware, and big data. By focusing on the design and development of technology in recent decades, students will learn how user behaviours and experiences vary across unequal social conditions and experiences in gender, race, class, and global politics. In addition, through the lens of critical design, students will utilize applied methods of critiquing - and even interjecting into - technology's social implications.