HONR 46000: Technological Justice

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In this course, students will study interdisciplinary approaches to technology ethics for responding to today's pressing technological dilemmas in a range of contexts, from healthcare, mass incarceration, and airport security to social media, smart cities, and space travel. Students will grapple with how historical and present-day inequalities, institutional environments, decision-making cultures, and regulatory systems impact the technological design process and distribution of technology's risks and rewards in society. We will ask ourselves how relations of power inform the ways technologies are designed and experienced, as well as how power shapes dominant and insurgent approaches to achieving technological justice. The primary deliverable in this class is for you to conceive of and carry out your own "Technological Justice" Project, based on your interests, passions, and personal and/or professional goals.

Course HONR 460 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.