This course engages with digital technologies as social and spatial phenomena. Through an exploration of themes including the cloud, internet infrastructures, smart cities, digital platforms, and the gig/sharing economy, the course identifies the environmental and social implications of pervasive digitality while critically navigating through utopian versus dystopian discourses of technology.
Prerequisite(s): Registration in year 3 or 4 in any module.
Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 1 tutorial hour.
Course Weight: 0.50
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CATEGORY A
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Subject Code: GEOGRAPH
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