Understanding the digital era through its technologies and their impact
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Practical Information
Classes will be on Mondays from May 4 to June 15 (except for ‘Pentecôte’ on May 25), from 18:00 to 20:00 (6pm to 8pm). Room planning is as follows, but is subject to change for the month of June.
| Date | Room |
|---|---|
| May 04 | Cavaillès (45) |
| May 11 | Cavaillès (45) |
| May 18 | Cavaillès (45) |
| June 01 | Jaurès (29) |
| June 08 | Jaurès (29) |
| June 15 | W (45) |
Syllabus
There are no prerequisites to follow the course. None of the classes will go into detail on any technical point, but will mostly be focused on building a general comprehension of technical mechanisms, and what constraints and socio-cultural facts they induce.
The goal of the class is to lift technological barriers that might be presented as “magical”, but are in fact quite direct.
The syllabus is not final, but among the themes that will be presented, there will be:
- How computer programs and apps work, and how they are built;
- Numerical sovereignty, open source culture, and numerical commons, which are fundamental concepts in digital culture.
- Connections between computers, how they are physically built and how they can “understand” each other over the internet;
- Computer security, and hacking, how and why to keep your data hidden;
- The inner workings of a computer, its parts, and what happens when you hit your keyboard;
- What happens in an “artificial intelligence”, and why the term might be overused, but easy to use.
Validation
The class validates a transdisciplinary experience for the DENS, but no ECTS.