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UNIV 2301 - Information Systems and Society

Credits: 3

Presents technological advances in information systems of the late 20th to 21st centuries and their impact on society’s creation, evaluation, and sharing of knowledge. Critical information studies considers how inventions like the Internet, social media, algorithms, and artificial intelligence change epistemology, searching behavior, reading and attention, the news, and mis/disinformation. Prerequisite or corequisite: A course that satisfies the CC Critical Reasoning (CR) Foundations requirement.


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