Assignment 2: Technology and Social Change
Technology and Social Change
For this assignment, you will analyze the impact of technology on social change. Describe the pros and cons as to how technology has affected social interaction, social networks, the workplace, and social change. Make sure to address these topics on the individual, societal, and global levels. Also address the ways in which technology has impacted your life and previous generations.
What are your predictions as to how technology will impact society in the future? Use specific examples as well as the course materials and other scholarly sources in your analysis. Finally, analyze a social movement that has been impacted by technology (for example, the use of social media). In what ways has technology helped or hurt the movement? Provide at least 4 scholarly sources in your analysis.
Paper Requirements:
At least 4 full pages of content (4 pages does not include title and reference pages)
Follow APA formatting guidelines (including title page and reference page).
Submit your paper no later than Sunday at 11:55 pm of Week Five.
General requirements:
Submissions should be typed, double-spaced, 1″ margins, times new roman 12 pt font, and saved as .doc, .docx, .pdf.
Use APA format for citations and references
View the grading rubric so you understand how you will be assessed on this Assignment.
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Research and education at Tema T – Technology and Social Change deals with how technology is developed and used in social contexts, as well as how technological change help shape and is shaped by cultural, political and economic processes in society.
For example, we study the role of technology in daily life and in how we understand ourselves and the world. We also study how values and norms are expressed, enacted, negotiated, transformed and reinforced in different practices and contexts where technology is developed and used.
Research at Tema T – Technology and Social Change is divided into three research programmes. P6: Bodies, Knowledge, Subjectivities researches topics of agency, care, embodiment, knowledge practices, normativities, and subjectivities in science, medicine and other technological practices. These topics are examined from social, cultural, philosophical, and ethical perspectives, contributing to feminist theory, medical humanities, and science, technology and society studies.
STRIPE gathers researchers with an interest in the political and environmental dimensions of infrastructures such as energy, transport and waste.
ValueS researches valuation practices including rankings, metrics, pricing, impact, evaluation and so on, across a variety of fields in and beyond technology and scientific knowledge. The work is rooted in science and technology studies (STS) and both draws on and contributes to contemporary theoretical problems of agency, ontology, governance and materiality.
Education
In addition to our research and doctorate education, Tema T – Technology and Social Change offers an international master’s degree in cooperation with Tema M – Environmental Change. Tema T also offers a bachelor’s programme in Urban and Regional Planning, with a focus on sustainability issues, again in cooperation with other units such as Tema M. Our researchers also teach in various other bachelor’s and master’s programmes at Linköping University, across its four Faculties.
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