Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• explain theories about contested knowledge and the role of technology in controversies.
• explain theories about the learning potential of controversies involving new knowledge and technology.    
• explain theories about the role played by online media in controversies    
• explain key aspects of digital tools and methods for studies of online controversies.

Skills

• map actors and issues in relation to techno-anthropological problems
• apply computational techniques to collect online datasets
• apply computational techniques to identify issues and actor positions in digital empirical material
• use data visualisation exploratively and in conjunction with relevant qualitative analysis to raise questions about a given controversy

Competences

• work collaboratively with large amounts of heterogeneous data
• design a feasible protocol for a controversy mapping project and reflect on the skill-sets and resources it necessitates
• account for the results of a controversy mapping project and their use in wider techno-anthropological contexts

Type of instruction

Lectures, classroom instructions, exercises, seminars, case analysis, teacher feedback, reflection.

Exam

Exams