This brand new course is 4 units.
Course Description
This course will consider the ways in which data, data science and datafication have developed. By foregrounding data as a central organizing theme in contemporary politics, economics and knowledge-making, this course prepares students to understand current phenomena by examining their historical precedent, methodological and theoretical underpinnings. Drawing from multiple disciplines, we will explore topics such as the histories of data and datafication; the making of technological systems; science and technology as sources of social power and authority; race, gender, postcolonial and intersectional approaches; regulatory and policy interventions; and public engagement with data and technology.