1st session - Keeping up with the digital age

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During this session, we discuss the following questions:

 

> How can we think about the interplay between technology, society, and change?

 > What will we cover in this online course?

 > How to succeed in this course?

 

 This session's tasks consist of 3 activities and one voluntary one:

 

1- Watch: Watch the following lectures. As discussed here (Exam study orientation), you are expected to take your own notes. It will be helpful having the lecture slides ready to put your notes into your own context (feel free to print them out or use a notepad). You can choose between two formats (check them out and see what you prefer):

 Slides_DTSC_Introduction_Hilbert.pdf Download Slides_DTSC_Introduction_Hilbert.pdf

Notes_DTSC_Introduction_Hilbert.pdf Download Notes_DTSC_Introduction_Hilbert.pdf

 

DTSC: 1.1 Digital Thinking (19 min long)

DTSC: 1.2 What's the role of tech in social change? (11:21 min)

DTSC: 1.3 What is Digital Technology? (18:50 min)

DTSC: 1.4 How to think about the interplay between technology, society & change? (16:05)

DTSC: 1.5 What will we cover in this 2023 online course? (10:54)

DTSC: 1.6 Digital Trends (overview): AI, metaverse, blockchain & persuasive tech (16:50)

DTSC: 1.7 Digital Innovation (overview). How to build digital processes? (5:57)

DTSC: 1.8 Digital Strategies (overview). How to ethically manage sociotechnological co-evolution? (9:45)

(total length Lectures: 1h 20min)

Course Logistics:

Slides_DTSC_StudyRecommendations_Hilbert.pdf Download Slides_DTSC_StudyRecommendations_Hilbert.pdf

Notes_DTSC_StudyRecommendations_Hilbert.pdf Download Notes_DTSC_StudyRecommendations_Hilbert.pdf

DTSC: 1.9 Study Orientation, Learning Recommendations, & Course Philosophy (28:45)

DTSC: 1-10: Time Management: a habit of highly effective people (4:57) Links to an external site.

(length Course Logistics: 33min)

 

2- Read:

Please read the Exam study orientation

 

3- Contribute:

As outlined in the syllabus (make sure to read it!), different assignments have different weights and content. 

This week's interactive assignment consists of a two-fold discussion question:

 

 

Optional / Voluntary / Complementary:

(Humans Need not Apply: 15min)

(Social construction of empowerment or censorship: 11min)

Hilbert, M., & López, P. (2011). The World’s Technological Capacity to Store, Communicate, and Compute Information. Science, 332(6025), 60 –65. http://www.martinhilbert.net/WorldInfoCapacity.html Links to an external site.