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ARIN3610: Technology and Culture
2025 unit information
Technology and Culture explores the relationships between technological developments and cultural change, with a particular focus on digital media. This unit of study interrogates the changing theorisations of technology in society by tracing the influence of key texts in media studies, philosophy of technology, sociology, cultural studies and science and technology studies. Through close readings of advanced texts, students explore the significance of technology in social power, identity, gender, social shaping, class, space, assemblages, actor-networks, experience, thought, time, and materiality. We mobilise and evaluate these theories in relation to emerging technologies today.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Media and Communications |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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(6 credit points at 2000 level in ARIN and (12 credit points at 1000 level in ARIN or 1000 level in MECO)) or (12 credit points at 2000 level in DECO) or (6 credit points at 1000 level and 6 credit points at 2000 level in SIEN or INFS) |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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ARIN2600 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Understand the complex interrelationship between technology and culture
- LO2. Develop independent learning and critical thinking through readings, discussion and written assignments
- LO3. Demonstrate oral and written communication skills by facilitating and participating in ‘provocations’
- LO4. Research and inquiry skills, involving the ability to present evidence and argument in support of your own particular perspective
- LO5. Become aware of the importance of influence and the conventions of citation, and a capacity to trace influences in this assignment
- LO6. Apply theoretical approaches to the study of technology and culture to recent case studies
- LO7. Use communication and information technologies effectively.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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