Technology and Experience

3-0-9 units. HASS-S; CI-H · Undergraduate

Provides sociological, psychological, and anthropological methods to examine how technologies shape and are shaped by individual and social relations, perceptions, habits, moods, and sensibilities. Topics vary, but may include how automation structures understandings of time, work, and identity; how remote technologies enable new modes of perception and skill; how power relations are embedded in and felt through software; how technologies of destruction reformulate notions of the body, environment, and futurity; and how various technologies mediate notions of health, addiction, attention, and creativity. Includes discussion of assigned materials and class activities, short written and multimedia assignments, and final project. Enrollment limited.