Technology and Society

By Prof. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri | FLAME University, Pune

Learners enrolled: 232

This course will introduce students to themes that mark this century: the social impact of technology and ethical dimensions of a mediated humanity. Through a reflection on technological history and social change, the recent transformations brought in by technology on government, business, and society will be discussed through topics ranging from social media to new medical technologies to artificial intelligence (AI).

Summary

Course Status :	Upcoming
Course Type :	Not Applicable
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	Self Paced
Category :	Humanities and Social Sciences
Level :	Undergraduate

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Course layout

Week Number	Title
	Society, Technology and Social Change
	Theorising Digital Society
	Technology and Society: Reconceptualising social research (Big Data; Thick Data)
	Ethical impacts of technology in society: Identities and Inequalities in digital spaces (Algorithms, search engines, and social media, AI and society
	New medical technologies (new reproductive technologies)
	Digital public engagement
	Can machines think? Technology, AI and the future of power in society

Books and references

● Digital Sociology by Deborah Lupton, Routledge: London & New York. 2015
●Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach by Bauchspies, Croissant, and Restivo, Blackwell Publishing, 2006

Instructor bio

Prof. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri

FLAME University, Pune

Dr. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of Sociology and Digital Humanities, Area Chair of Sociology and the Head of the Department of Social Sciences in the FLAME School of Liberal Education at FLAME University, Pune. Dr. Chaudhuri's research areas include Migrations and Mobilities, Gender Studies, Historical Sociology, Technology and Society, Digital Humanities, and Qualitative Research Methods. Dr. Chaudhuri is the recipient of international and national fellowships including a Indo-Swiss Grant jointly funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), a GESIS-EUROLAB Fellowship from the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS, Germany), a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, and the Government of India National Merit Scholarship. Dr. Chaudhuri's current funded project is titled "Producing Ontologies of Relationships from Indian Nuptial documents longitudinally (PORINOY): A Case Study of Bengali/Bangla Wedding Invitations", funded by the JPN Center of Excellence in Humanities at IIT Indore. Dr. Chaudhuri has completed two online teaching projects as part of the Government of India's Ministry of Human Resource Development's Direct To Home initiative (DTH Channel 16: NPTEL: Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management): (1) Gender & Society (2018), and (2) Images, Imaginations and Cultures (2023). Her research has been published significantly with top tier journals such as Sex Roles (Springer), Transfers (Berghahn Books, Oxford), and Applied Mobilities (Taylor and Francis). Dr. Chaudhuri is an Associate Editor with Frontiers in Sociology (Section: Migration and Society). She is the Founding Faculty of Digital Humanities programs (M.Sc. and Ph.D) at IIT Jodhpur, and served as a member of the Board of Studies in Digital Humanities for Savitribai Phule Pune University, India (2022-2024). An interdisciplinary scholar with academic training in Sociology, Cultural Anthropology, and Geography, she enjoys advising undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral projects that are located at the intersections of society, culture, and technology.

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