Big Tech Plat­forms: Tech­no­logy, Power & Polit­ics

Course content

In recent years, tech platforms emerge as some of the most powerful institutions on the planet impacting the markets for commerce, democracy, and labor.

• Amazon and Netflix outcompete incumbent businesses and change the landscape of commerce and culture;

• Facebook and Google challenge democracy and media; and 

• Uber accelerates the gig economy and the way people work conflicting traditional interests of labor unions.

Meanwhile, policymakers in Brussels, Beijing, Washington D.C. and other capitals struggle to keep pace with formulating and designing policies that keep pace with technological innovation.

This course will challenge your practical and intellectual senses. Practically, the course will equip you to understand the way tech platforms changes how we trade, make political decisions and work. And intellectually, you will be part of a course not afraid of asking the big questions starting with "why" and "how" without definite answers.