Digital Justice

What it covers

This unit confronts students with the stark injustices in the contemporary digital world as manifested in phenomena such as the digital divide and the democratic deficit. It provides an overview of the history of the digital world and engages many of the current challenges posed by algorithmic violence, surveillance capitalism, and digital colonialism. While deeply rooted in the present and looking toward the future, the unit also takes students back a few decades the milieux and ideologies that led to the establishment of cyberspace and, later, to the ‘Internet of things’.

Assessment

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