BTT 501E - Bilim, Teknoloji ve Toplum Çalışmaları

Dersin Amaçları

The course aims at discussing the basic topics of science, technology and society studies; the distinction between science and non-science, justifiability and falsifiability, science and technology as ideology, technological rationality, autonomy of technology, technological determinism and its critique, social constructivism and the actor-network theory, science and laboratory are some of the topics to be discussed. This theoretical framework is going to be discussed in relation to the contemporary problems of science and technology such as big data, social robots, biotechnology, bioethics and the Internet of Things.

Dersin Tanımı

The course aims at discussing the basic topics of science, technology and society studies; the distinction between science and non-science, justifiability and falsifiability, science and technology as ideology, technological rationality, autonomy of technology, technological determinism and its critique, social constructivism and the actor-network theory, science and laboratory are some of the topics to be discussed. This theoretical framework is going to be discussed in relation to the contemporary problems of science and technology such as big data, social robots, biotechnology, bioethics and the Internet of Things.