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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Communication and Journalism
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Nicholas John
Coordinator Office Hours:
Tuesday, 10-11, or by appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Nicholas John
Course/Module description:
As students of communication, we have a special interest in technological artifacts and arrangements. In this course we shall ask a number of concepts and issues that might challenge some widespread views of technology and society. These include: technological determinism; technological utopianism and dystopianism; the diffusion of technologies; technology and needs; technology, the state, capitalism and power; technology and gender; the social, economic, political and cultural context of the development and spread of new technologies; technology and values; and the very concept of technology itself.
Course/Module aims:
This course aims to provide a theoretical overview of some of the more important issues to do with technology, society and the relationship between them, with particular emphasis on the Internet and new media.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
To critically discuss the relationship between technology and society.
To deconstruct popular discourses about technology.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Frontal lectures with class discussion
Course/Module Content:
The issues to be discussed in this course include:
• technological determinism;
• technological utopianism and dystopianism;
• the diffusion of technologies;
• technology and needs;
• technology, the state, capitalism and power;
• technology and gender;
• the social, economic, political and cultural context of the development and spread of new technologies;
• technology and values;
• the very concept of technology itself
Required Reading:
To be taken from reading below.
Additional Reading Material:
By topic; may change
טכנולוגיה מהי?
Strum, S., & Latour, B. (1999). Redefining the social link: from baboons to humans. In D. A. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd ed., pp. 116-125). Buckingham Eng.; Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Latour, B. (1992). The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts. In W. E. Bijker & J. Law (Eds.), Shaping technology/building society : studies in sociotechnical change (pp. 225-258). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
תשתיות
Star, S. L., & Bowker, G. C. (2006). How to Infrastructure. In L. A. Lievrouw & S. M. Livingstone (Eds.), Handbook of new media : social shaping and consequences of ICTs (Updated student edition) (pp. 230-245). London ; Thousand Oaks [Calif.]: SAGE.
Graham, S. (2000), Introduction: Cities and Infrastructure. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 24: 114–119.
Wu, T., & Goldsmith, J. (2008) Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (especially Chapters 1 and 4.)
לימודי טכנולוגיה וחברה
Williams, R., & Edge, D. (1996). The social shaping of technology. Research Policy, 25, 865-899.
MacKenzie, D. A., & Wajcman, J. (1999). Introductory essay: The social shaping of technology. In D. A. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd ed., pp. 3-27). Buckingham Eng.; Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Wajcman, J. (2002). Addressing Technological Change: the Challenge to Social Theory. Current Sociology, 50(3), 347-363.
Mackay, H., & Gillespie, G. (1992). Extending the Social Shaping of Technology Approach: Ideology and Appropriation. Social Studies of Science, 22(4), 685-716.
Lievrouw, L. A. (2006). New media design and development: Diffusion of innovations v social shaping of technology. In L. A. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), The handbook of new media. Social shaping and social consequences of ICTs (pp. 246-265). London: Sage.
Kling, R. (2007). What is social informatics and why does it matter? The Information Society, 23(4), 205-220.)http://bit.ly/5qW55(
Law, J. (1992). Notes on the theory of the actor-network: ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity. Systemic Practice and Action Research, 5(4), 379-393.
Blondheim, M. (2009). Narrating the history of media technologies. In M. Bailey (Ed.), Narrating media history. London ; New York: Routledge.
גלובליזציה
Sassen, S. (2004). Sited Materialities with Global Span. In R. Jones (Ed.), Society Online. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sassen, S. (2007). Introduction: Deciphering the Global. In S. Sassen (Ed.), Deciphering the global: its scales, spaces and subjects (pp. 1-18). New York: Routledge.
John, Nicholas A. 2011. “The Diffusion of the Internet to Israel: The First Ten Years.” Israel Affairs, 17:3, 327-340.
John, Nicholas A. Forthcoming. “The Construction of the Multilingual Internet: Unicode, Hebrew and Globalization”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
אוטופיות טכנולוגית (ותרבות אמריקאית)
Kling, R. (1996). Hopes and Horrors: Technological Utopianism and Anti-Utopianism in Narratives of Computerization In R. Kling (Ed.), Computerization and controversy: value conflicts and social choices (2nd ed., pp. 40-58). San Diego: Academic Press.
Segal, H. P. (1985). Technological utopianism in American culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Introduction and Chapter 1)
Smith, M. R. (1994). Technological Determinism in American Culture. In M. R. Smith & L. Marx (Eds.), Does technology drive history? : the dilemma of technological determinism (pp. 1-36). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Dinerstein, J. (2006). Technology and Its Discontents: On the Verge of the Posthuman. American Quarterly 58(3), 569-595
John, N. A. (2011). Conceptualizing the Israeli Internet: The Press, The Pioneers and the Practitioners. International Journal of Communication, 5. (http://bit.ly/qzTnRD)
ארטיפקטים ופוליטיקה
דרור, יובל. (2006) הפוליטיקה של הטכנולוגיה. מפה. פרק 10, ארכיטקטורה היא פוליטיקה (אפשר לקרוא ב: http://www.text.org.il/index.php?book&eq;0604016)
Winner, L. (1999). Do Artifacts Have Politics? In D. A. MacKenzie & J. Wajcman (Eds.), The social shaping of technology (2nd ed., pp. 28-40). Buckingham Eng.; Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Joerges, B. (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts? Social Studies of Science, 29(3), 411-431.
Woolgar, S., & Cooper, G. (1999). Do artefacts have ambivalence? Moses' bridges, Winner's bridges and other urban legends in S&TS. Social Studies of Science, 29(3), 433-449.
Street, J. (1992). Politics and technology. New York: Guilford Press. (especially Chapter 5)
Beer, D. (2009). Power through the algorithm? Participatory web cultures and the technological unconscious. New Media & Society 11(6), 985-1002.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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