STS 153 - Living With Social Technologies

Institution:

Stanford University

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How can technologies facilitate and engage human capacities and needs for social interaction Do social technologies pose special challenges for policy making and research and how can we respond Topics include: the emergence of social technologies in cyberspace; gaming, social networking, virtual agents, and social robotics; comparison of communities online and off; technological innovation and new modes of communicating, learning, playing, and working; the social impacts of shifting boundaries between animacy/inanimacy, human/machine, real/virtual. 4 units, Win (Sabanovic, S)

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stanford.edu/

Phone Number:

(650) 723-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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