FIK3615 Critical Perspectives on Engineering and Construction of ICT Systems

Enrolled as PhD student.

The institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted.

Science as the building of networks.

Social construction of technology as a method of inquiry.

Technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions.

Contemporary interpretation theories (in the Foucault book, the case is sexuality) and how it has been shaped by historical trends.

Gender and privilege studies of science and technology.

The student upon completion of the course will be able to:

• explain the (ideal and factual) requirements on engineering
• describe his or her own view on critical perspectives on science, and compare this to critical perspectives on engineering
• apply critical perspectives to practical problems
• give an account of some concepts of ethics in science
• instrumentalise engineering problems under critical perspectives