AMG5037 · Digital technology, policy and governance

Overview

In this unit, you will examine the impacts of new and future media technologies. You will engage with important contemporary debates about the role of specific technologies in civil society. Using global case studies, you will engage with important contemporary debates about how new technologies produce data and information as valuable resources, and how data and information are being incorporated into government and institutional policies and practices. You will develop the skills necessary to understand the interplay between technology and policy, and learn to anticipate and evaluate future trends in the regulation of technology.

Areas of study: Communications and media studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Critically analyse how digital technologies, platforms and services capture and use data;
2. Critically evaluate the personal, political and social impacts of the digitisation of civic infrastructure and social services;
3. Undertake original research into emerging digital technologies and associated regulation and policy contexts;
4. Communicate research findings and insights in a clear, concise, accurate and engaging way using appropriate audio/visual elements and written reporting conventions.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.