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STS.008 Technology and Experience

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Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Lecture: TR11-12.30 (4-265)

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 social media affects attention, creativity, aesthetics, and emotion; how pharmaceuticals reshape feelings, pain, and pleasure; how technologies of destruction mediate notions of the body, environment, and futurity; and how forensic technologies create new forms of space, exclusion, and belonging. Includes in-class discussion of assigned materials, short written and multimedia assignments, and final project. Enrollment limited.
I. Saraf
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