Digital Technologies and Everyday Life

Undergraduate

This course surveys critical theories of technology with a focus on how evolving and emerging communication/digital technologies are received and adapted and how they shape practices in various institutional contexts and in everyday life. Topics may include: representations of technology, technologies and the organization/perception of space and time, privacy/surveillance, gender, labour, access and usage of technology by Indigenous communities, the environment and technology. (Prerequisite: CMAF-2010 or CMAF-2750.)