This course is available on the BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in Politics, BSc in Politics and Economics and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
20 hours of lectures in the LT.
Students will be expected to produce 1 piece of coursework in the LT. Students will choose one of the questions posed in each weekly debate to answer in their summative essay and once chosen they will then write an annotated bibliography (1500 words) that evaluates between 3 and 6 sources relating to that debate they will use in the summative essay.
Jemielniak, Dariusz. Thick big data: Doing digital social sciences. Oxford University Press, 2020. Wright, Nicholas. "How artificial intelligence will reshape the global order." Foreign Affairs 10 (2018). Lane, Julia, Victoria Stodden, Stefan Bender, and Helen Nissenbaum. Privacy, big data, and the public good: Frameworks for engagement. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Zegart, Amy, and Michael Morell. "Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: Why US Intelligence Agencies Must Adapt or Fail." Foreign Aff. 98 (2019): 85. Castillo, Carlos. Big crisis data: social media in disasters and time-critical situations. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019. Profile Books, 2019. Kendall-Taylor, Andrea, Erica Frantz, and Joseph Wright. "The Digital Dictators: How Technology Strengthens Autocracy." Foreign Aff. 99 (2020): 103. Lanier, Jaron. Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now. Random House, 2018. O'Neil, Cathy. Weapons of math destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. Broadway Books, 2016
Essay (80%, 3000 words) in the ST. Class participation (20%) in the LT. The summative assessment will comprise two components. First, a student's overall contribution to the course (20%) will be assessed by way of oral participation in the classroom and written contribution to an online discussion forum where each of the debates examined in the course will be the subject of potential discussion. Second, students will choose one of the questions posed each week - or else adapt this question with the approval of the instructor - and write a long essay totalling 3000 words.