URL study guide
https://tue.osiris-student.nl/onderwijscatalogus/extern/cursus?cursuscode=0HV80&collegejaar=2025&taal=enDescription
Last year course is taught: 2024/2025Last examination year: 2025/2026
Overlap with 0HV150
This course extends insights of earlier courses, such as ‘Introduction Psychology & Technology’ in the sense that it takes in a broader societal perspective: we examine how the broader social context (e.g., social networks, norms, institutions) affects the use of technology by humans and how technology use, in turn, affects society. The course introduces research on social networks and social media, both of which gain an increasing relevance for HTI research. Exemplary problems to be covered are: How do you get individuals to accept new ideas or technologies? How do you get people to collaborate on the internet and especially in social media? Social networks are becoming more and more important for solving these problems.
Objectives
Knowledge: Students acquire knowledge about
- the main questions, important concepts, and most important insights of different sociological research traditions applied to new technologies
- social network theories about the diffusion of innovations
- theories about social control and how to apply them to social media and technologies
Capabilities: Students will be able to
- apply sociological theories to problems of ICT, social media and their social consequences and pre-conditions of use
- design socio-technical solutions, based on the theoretical analysis of a problem
- re-construct important arguments and theories and to develop basic theoretical arguments about technology design, technological innovations and especially ICT
- analyze the latest questions about diffusion and use of ICT and social media as refinements of earlier sociological research in related areas
- write a short policy paper and provide a poster presentations that demonstrates these capabilities
Attitudes:
- Students will develop a critical attitude about technology design recommendations and their desirable and undesirable social consequences