Decoding Cultures of Technology and Social Change (V3090)
15 credits, Level 5
Autumn teaching
On this module, you’ll examine the historic and modern cultures associated with computational technology.
You’ll investigate the ‘practices and cultures’ associated with technology. You’ll explore this through an alternative lens motivated by social justice perspective and praxis. You’ll respond to the challenges of today’s digital world, exploring:
- the history of women in technology
- bias and discrimination in computational systems
- inclusive design and design justice
- feminist HCI
- critical digital humanities
- computational ethics
- among others.
By decoding the cultures associated with computational technology, you’ll ask how we can collaborate more strategically across disciplinary boundaries to promote and imagine more socially aware digital and data futures.
We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We鈥檙e planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.
We鈥檒l make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.