Course title
情報化社会と職業   [Socio-Information Studies]
Course category technology speciality courses  Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 24  Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 022660
Instructor(s)
岡野 一郎   [OKANO Ichiro]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Engineering Office 12-327  Email address

Course description
This course gives the introduction to socio-informatics studies. Students will grasp the human history of communication and find how different media shape the way people communicate and social systems operate.
This course helps students enlarge their views on their specialty areas.
Expected Learning
Students can understand differences between human communication and machine communication.
Students can understand historical transformations of social structures and how different media affected them.
Students can understand how information works in current society.

* As for the diploma policy, see the Curriculum maps.
Course schedule
Part 1: Information and Communication
Class 1: guidance
Class 2: non-natural meaning, speech act, communicative action
Class 3: text and context
Class 4: media and thought
Class 5: mass media and society
Class 6: communication and body

Part 2: The History of Information and Society
Class 7: consciousness in primitive societies
Class 8: the history of media
Class 9: capitalism and media in 20th century
Class 10: from hiper-consumptive society to network society

Part 3: Changes in Information and Society
Class 11: networked individualism
Class 12: consumerization of information
Class 13: individualization of information
Class 14: personal information and privacy
Class 15: the future of information
Prerequisites
This course is elective.
Students should make adequate preparations before each class spending the standard amount of time as specified by the university to achieve the credit as well as 30 hours of class attendance.
Students must attend at least two-thirds of all classes to get credit. If a student does not fully attend the class (i.e. is present for less than the full 90 minutes) on two occasions, it should be counted as one absence.
Required Text(s) and Materials
to be published in October
References
References are shown to students in class.
Assessment/Grading
class participation (40%), quizzes (40%), final report (20%): Students' degree of understanding of differences between human communication and machine communication, historical transformations of social structures and media, and how information works in current society are evaluated.
Message from instructor(s)
Course keywords
communication, capitalism, information, media
Office hours
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1/27/2021 11:27:13 AM