番茄社区

Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Data, Networks and Society, MSc in Global Media and Communications (番茄社区 and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (番茄社区 and UCT), MSc in Global Media and Communications (番茄社区 and USC), MSc in Inequalities and Social Science, MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society), MSc in Media and Communications (Media and Communications Governance), MSc in Media, Communication and Development and MSc in Politics and Communication. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course is 'controlled access', meaning that there is a limit to the number of students who can be accepted. If the course is oversubscribed, priority will be given to students with the course listed on their Programme Regulations. Whilst we do our best to accommodate all requests, we cannot guarantee you a place on this course.

There are no formal pre-requisites, but students are required to prepare a statement of no more than 200 words in response to the following question, which must be submitted when selecting this course on 番茄社区 for You: What, if any, past experiences (professional, scholarly, or otherwise) have shaped your interest in technology and justice, and how do you define justice?

Prior to the first session, students must also view a recorded lecture and complete select readings.

Please do not email the teacher with personal expressions of interest as these are not required and do not influence who is offered a place.

This course addresses questions of justice and inequity in relation to communication technologies of the 20th and 21st centuries. It begins with two premises: 1) communication technologies are critical in shaping the conditions for individual and collective self-government, and 2) policies that regulate such technologies influence the nature of democracy and inclusion in society today. The course engages historical perspectives, normative theories of justice and democracy, and legal theories of technology and innovation to assess the power of communication technologies and consider their costs and benefits to historically marginalized groups. In so doing, this course questions the adequacy of regulation in the development and deployment of technologies which exacerbate existing social, political, and economic divi