MIT Course: Technology and Culture

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/anthropology/21a-340j-technology-and-culture-fall-2006/

This MIT course involves the following questions: What cultural effects and risks follow from treating biology as technology? How have computers and information technologies changed the ways we think about ourselves? How are politics built into the infrastructures within which we live?

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Date Of Record Release	2005-08-29 15:21:20
Description	This MIT course involves the following questions: What cultural effects and risks follow from treating biology as technology? How have computers and information technologies changed the ways we think about ourselves? How are politics built into the infrastructures within which we live?
Classification	Sustainability Environmental Decisionmaking MIT/ LFEE Research
Resource Type	Course
Format	Online Course
Subject	Agriculture
Keyword	technology, culture, sociology, biotechnology
Selector	Conlin
Date Of Record Creation	2005-08-24 06:26:27
Education Level	College
Date Last Modified	2010-07-23 17:23:48
Publisher	MIT OpenCourseWare
Creator	Stefan Helmreich
Language	English

Date Record Checked: 2005-08-24 00:00:00 (W3C-DTF)

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