Big Tech Platforms: Technology, Power & Politics

Om faget

Emner

Globalisering Internationalisering Politik Informationsteknologi

Fagets indhold

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.

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Det lærer du

This course explores and questions how tech platforms apply power to change markets for democracy, products and labor. Whether your career will be within a business, policy-making, media, academia or civil society - and whether you want to fight the power of tech platforms, observe it, or promote it - the course will help you to:

Be familiar with theories regarding the constitution of platforms, technology, power and markets.
Demonstrate knowledge about the dynamics between technology and the markets for democracy, products and labor.
Analyze cases and situations of rapid technological change and their implications to participating actors within technology, business, public policy, civil society, academia and media.
Assess policy interventions on tech platforms in local, national and international contexts.

Course prerequisites

This course focuses on interactions between the tech sector and the governmental actors involved in shaping public policies. Your interest in how the tech platforms, technology and digitization change the way we consume, live and work will help you relate to and succeed in this course.

Fakta

Niveau

Kandidat

Type

Valgfag

ECTS

7,5

Fagkode

CPOLV1024U

Undervisningsperiode

Efterår – 1. quarter

Forår – 4. quarter

Studieår

2024/2025

Status

Ledige pladser

Sprog

Engelsk

Undervisningsform

Hybrid

Eksamen

Skriftlig opgave
Individuel eksamen, efterår
Skriftlig opgave
Individuel eksamen, sommer

Bedømmelse

7-trins skala