Information-Communication Technology and Society

Informacijsko-komunikacijske tehnologije in družba

Course credits:

9.00 ECTS / 60 (30 hours of lectures, 0 hours of exercises, 30 hours of seminars, 0 hours other forms of work)

Course holder:

doc. dr. Sara Atanasova

Lecturers:

• Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vesna Dolničar

Type:

Required

Language:

English

Semester:

Second semester

Study degree

2. level

Course execution:

• Postgraduate Programme of Social Informatics

Short content

In the course students familiarize themselves with crucial paradigms of the relationship between technology and society: technological determinism, social constructivism, social shaping of technology, social informatics, actor-network theory, etc. Students also connect the presented theoretical foundations with current global phenomena in the field of social aspects of ICTs and prepare research questions, theoretical overviews, and approaches for addressing a selected problem in the final paper.