<p>Lecture, four hours. Social, cultural, and technical practices through which information and media infrastructures—networks, systems, technologies, algorithms, interfaces, standards, institutions, bureaucracies, markets—are designed, built, maintained, and evaluated. Ways in which information infrastructures both shape and are shaped by governmental policy, institutional decision making, socioeconomic trends, labor movements, technical advances, and professional and personal value systems, at levels ranging from local to global. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Information Studies

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.

General Catalog

Systems and Infrastructures

INF STD 270

4 units