WGS.S10 Feminist Data Ethics
New class!
Prereq: None
Units: 3-0-9
Mon 7 -10pm
Room 4-257
Considers the ethical implications of new technologies and their impact on how we receive and transmit various types of data: medical, genetic, financial, personal. Data is being generated in many ways from our physical bodies, and this form of “datafication” has far-reaching ethical implications, particularly for historically marginalized and/or oppressed bodies, which are often subject to sexual objectification, surveillance, and other forms of control.
K.Surkan