FSNA 107 - Culture and Computers

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Case Western Reserve University

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Description:

We live in a world that is increasingly shaped and dominated by computer systems. This seminar will explore ideas about the relationship between culture and computer/information technologies. Topics will range from the historical development of information systems to the shaping of online identities to the relationships between information systems and political ideology and conceptions of a digital future. The class will meet in three dramatically different spaces: our high technology seminar room, a virtual classroom of our own design, and the computer classrooms of the nearby Ashbury Senior Computing and Community Center (ASC-3). This course will have a service component that requires students to work six hours across the semester as teaching aides in the ASC-3 computing classes for senior adults. As students read about theories about information technologies and access, student service work will enable them to analyze these theories within the context of grass roots activism, participating in an adjoining neighborhood's goal to expand access to the "computer revolution." Students at all levels of computer literacy welcome.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.case.edu

Phone Number:

(216) 368-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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