SOCIO303

Big Tech, Big Data, Algorithms and Society

2026
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15

300

15 points in either Sociology or Social Policy or Screen and Media Studies.

Thinking sociologically about digital technologies: algorithms in social life, surveillance, disinformation, the gig economy and precarity. What does it mean to do sociology in the age of big tech?

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