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Unit of Study COMM2005 - Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Culture (2024)

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Unit description

This unit examines how culture is transformed by algorithmic practices and artificial intelligence. Students will examine digital cultural practices like social media, automated decision-making and generative artificial intelligence. They will consider the relationships between algorithmic practices, cultural differences and hierarchies of power.

Unit content

Module 1:  Introduction: power, algorithms and artificial intelligence

Module 2:  Curating and searching

Module 3:  Deciding about lives

Module 4:  Interacting with others

Module 5:  Changing labour

Module 6:  Creating and resisting

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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe everyday examples of cultural changes resulting from the use of algorithms/artificial intelligence

Reflect on the relationship between algorithms/artificial intelligence and their cultural, political and technological contexts

Examine interactions between algorithmic practices/artificial intelligence and existing social inequalities and cultural hierarchies

Critically analyse an everyday cultural site by applying relevant cultural and critical theories.