Title: Course in - Digital and Computational Studies
Location: US
Company: Education
Digital and computational studies (DCS) is “computation in context”— a focus on digital objects (e.g., a computer program) that exist in digital environments. Analysis includes:
- Artifacts: objects of study, which are shared with many fields in the liberal arts. The questions explored include asking how digital objects are interpreted in physical, social, historical, and cultural contexts.
- Architectures: the infrastructures that give rise to the objects, their use, or their study, which are also shared with other fields. The questions explored include consideration of the consequences of these associated infrastructures, data, technology, and labor for understanding the object.
- Abstractions: the models built and theories tested through those models. The questions explored include asking what different models reveal about objects and what common ground exists between different fields that use those models.
- Agency: interpretation and decision-making. The questions explored include examination of how computation or the existence of a digital object shape who can make decisions, how results are interpreted, or how empowerment to act or express knowledge are influenced under the above conditions.
- Accountability: consequences and responsibility. An evaluative and critical exploration of ethical considerations of artifacts and the unintended outcomes of their deployment.