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SOCI 2755

Technology, Society and Indigenous Peoples in Canada

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2026; FDF · Technology, Society, and Indigenous Peoples of Canada

Topics

  • The relationship between society and technology
  • Theories of technological change, design, development and diffusion
  • Indigenous knowledge, appropriate technology and colonial effects of digital practices
  • Digital inequality in remote Indigenous communities
  • Work, the sharing economy and resource extraction
  • Gendered technologies and their social consequences
  • Social media, interpersonal relationships and electronic surveillance
  • Food security, technological ethics and Indigenous communities

Readings

  • Required: Volti, Rudi, and Jennifer Croissant. Society and Technological Change. 9th edition. Waveland Press, 2024.
  • Additional required readings: Online articles concerning Canada’s Indigenous peoples and technology-related issues, with titles and URLs supplied inside course study modules; the public outline does not list their individual titles.
  • Required viewing: Online videos identified through the course modules; individual titles not specified in the public outline.
Fall 2026; FDE · Technology, Society, and Indigenous Peoples of Canada

Topics

  • The relationship between society and technology
  • Theories of technological change, design, development and diffusion
  • Indigenous knowledge, appropriate technology and colonial effects of digital practices
  • Digital inequality in remote Indigenous communities
  • Work, the sharing economy and resource extraction
  • Gendered technologies and their social consequences
  • Social media, interpersonal relationships and electronic surveillance
  • Food security, technological ethics and Indigenous communities

Readings

  • Required: Volti, Rudi, and Jennifer Croissant. Society and Technological Change. 9th edition. Waveland Press, 2024.
  • Additional required readings: Online articles concerning Canada’s Indigenous peoples and technology-related issues, with titles and URLs supplied inside course study modules; the public outline does not list their individual titles.
  • Required viewing: Online videos identified through the course modules; individual titles not specified in the public outline.
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