This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in International Social and Public Policy with Politics, BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics, BSc in Politics and History, BSc in Politics and International Relations and BSc in Politics and Philosophy. This course is not available as an outside option nor to General Course students.
15 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.
Fung, Archon, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Jennifer Shkabatur. 2013. "Six models for the internet+politics." International Studies Review. Nyabola, Nanjala. 2018. Digital democracy, analogue politics: How the Internet era is transforming politics in Kenya. Zed Books. Farrell, Henry, and Abraham Newman. 2016. "The transatlantic data war: Europe fights back against the NSA." Foreign Affairs. Vogl, Thomas M., Cathrine Seidelin, Bharath Ganesh, and Jonathan Bright. 2020. "Smart Technology and the Emergence of Algorithmic Bureaucracy: Artificial Intelligence in UK Local Authorities." Public Administration Review. Perez, Caroline Criado. 2019. Invisible women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for men. Random House. Richardson, Rashida, Jason M. Schultz, and Kate Crawford. 2019. "Dirty data, bad predictions: How civil rights violations impact police data, predictive policing systems, and justice." NYU Law Review Online. Worthy, Ben. 2015. "The impact of open data in the UK: Complex, unpredictable, and political." Public Administration. Peixoto, Tiago, and Micah L. Sifry. 2017. Civic Tech in the Global South: Assessing Technology for the Public Good. World Bank. Ahn, Michael J., and Stuart Bretschneider. 2011. "Politics of e‐government: E‐government and the political control of bureaucracy." Public Administration Review.
Essay (100%, 2000 words) in the ST.