Liberal Arts
Digital and Data Futures
Module code: Q9125E
Level 4
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Lecture
Assessment modes: Portfolio
How do digital technologies affect the way we live, learn, communicate and participate in society, and how might we create different, more socially responsible, digital and data futures?
Drawing on the 5X社区视频’s radical history of thinking across subjects, you’ll explore how areas such as data, algorithms and digital systems are reshaping everyday life, public institutions and global societies. You’ll explore and examine areas such as:
- AI
- automation
- algorithmic bias
- digital rights
- inclusion and exclusion
- questions about their social and environmental impacts.
By engaging with examples from different sectors and communities, you’ll develop the critical awareness needed to navigate and question the digital transformations shaping the contemporary world.
Module learning outcomes
- Identify key concepts, technologies and debates related to digital data, AI and algorithmic systems.
- Apply interdisciplinary ideas to explore how digital systems create ethical, legal, social, and cultural challenges in different contexts.
- Evaluate the societal, cultural and environmental implications of a digital or data-driven system, including issues of equity, inclusion and wellbeing.
- Reflect on their position within a data-driven society and consider how individuals, organisations or communities might contribute to more accountable and sustainable digital futures.