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58221 Social Informatics

UTS: Communication
Credit points: 8 cp
Result Type: Grade, no marks

Requisite(s): 58126 Information Discovery and Analysis OR 58127 Information Cultures
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

Handbook description

This subject critically examines the interplay between society and technologies. Students develop an advanced understanding of the key social issues associated with the design, uses and consequences of information and communication technologies that takes into account human interaction with technology in a range of institutional and cultural contexts of development and deployment. The subject builds on understandings of the interpretation and representation of knowledge, how particular knowledges are privileged and translated and the relationship between issues of access and power. Students develop critical analysis skills required to understand the dynamic nature of relationships affecting the transfer and use of knowledge and information in emerging social and technological contexts. Students also make further contributions to their ePortfolio.