ISKM64 Information Society

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Michal Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Michal Černý, Ph.D.
Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Alice Lukavská
Supplier department: Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
each odd Tuesday 12:00–13:40 D33
Prerequisites
Interest in issues.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 5/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to orientate in the information society and the changes it brings. Emphasis will be placed on the dimension of information revolution, anthropological and ethical aspects of change, changes in education and education, etc. Emphasis will be put not only on the analysis of modern trends and themes, but also on numerous philosophical and historical excursions that will provide listeners with a wider and less common dimension of understanding of selected problems.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course the student will be able to:
  • to critically view the phenomenon of the information society
  • work with relevant literature on the subject
  • write about the information society
  • to reflect changes in the area of the company's structure
  • perceive the specifics of companies in the industry 4.0
  • to reflect changes in the field of learning and education
  • critically view the subject of copyright
  • know the basic concept of digital anthropology
  • to hold their own position in ethical dilemmas related to the information society
  • Understand the relationship between information and learning societies
  • critically argue and think about individual phenomena
    • Syllabus
    • Communication; font and speech
    • History of Informatics, Communication and Techniques
    • Information Revolution
    • Technological changes
    • Economic changes, changes in management
    • Social change, democracy, civic participation
    • Changes in art and culture
    • Social Informatics
    • Learning Society
    • New forms of education and lifelong learning
    • Teacher and student in   21st. century
    • Ethical issues and dilemmas
    • Philosophical problems and the information society
    • Digital anthropology
    Literature
      required literature
    • FREY, Carl Benedikt; OSBORNE, Michael A. The future of employment: how susceptible are jobs to computerisation. Retrieved September, 2013, 7: 2013.
    • SIEMENS, George. Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. International journal of instructional technology and distance learning, 2005, 2.1: 3-10.
      recommended literature
    • MCLUHAN, Marshall. The medium is the message. Media and cultural studies: keyworks, 1964, 129-138.
    • OECD Information technology outlook ICTs and the Information Economy 2002 Edition - ICT diffusion and the digital divide. In: OECD [online]. Paris, 2002 [cit. 2014-07-09]. Dostupné z: http://www.oecd.org/internet/ieconomy/37620159.pdf
    • ROBINSON, Kenneth. How schools kill creativity. TED [online]. 2006 [cit. 2014-07-07]. Dostupné z:http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity
      not specified
    • ARAI, Kohei (ed.). Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 1. Springer Nature, 2022.
    • MEHRA, Bharat (ed.). Social Justice Design and Implementation in Library and Information Science. Routledge, 2021.
    • Webster, F., & Blom, R. (Ed.). (2020). The information society reader. Routledge.
    • ROTHMAN, Denis. Transformers for Natural Language Processing: Build innovative deep neural network architectures for NLP with Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, BERT, RoBERTa, and more. Packt Publishing Ltd, 2021.
    • MURRAY, Andrew. Information technology law: the law and society. Oxford University Press, 2019.
    • Kublik, S., & Saboo, S. (2022). GPT-3: Building innovative NLP products using large language models. O’Reilly Media, Inc.
    • WEBSTER, Frank, et al. (ed.). The information society reader. Psychology Press, 2004.
    Teaching methods
    Discussion seminar combined with a lecture. The course is taught in a flipped classroom format - students watch recordings of two lectures or study the literature and discuss the topic in a seminar once every 14 days.
    Assessment methods
    Active participation (at least 80%), essay on selected topic, short essay interview.
    Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further Comments
    Study Materials
    The course is taught annually.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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