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Perspectives on Technology and Society - 5 ECTS
Date and time
Monday 3 February 2025 at 09:00 to Friday 7 February 2025 at 15:00
Registration Deadline
Friday 20 December 2024 at 23:55
Location
Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor),
Dalgas Have 15,
2000 Frederiksberg
Dalgas Have - room DHV 2.69, 2.70 & 2.71 (second floor)
Dalgas Have 15
2000 Frederiksberg
Perspectives on Technology and Society - 5 ECTS
Course coordinators: Julie Uldam & Rasmus Koss Hartmann, Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
Department of Management, Society and Communication, CBS
Associate Professor Rasmus Koss Hartman
Department of Management, Society and Communication, CBS
Professor Hans Krause Hansen
Associate Professor Oana Albu
Pre-requisites
Participants must be enrolled in a PhD program with a project dealing with technology and its relationship to management, organizations and/or society (unless dispensation is provided by the course coordinators).
As part of the course registration, participants are required to hand in:
(1) a short motivational statement of about 500 words on why you are applying for the course
After being accepted to the course and two weeks prior to the course start at the latest, participants are required to hand in:
(2) a short paper of 2,500 – 3,000 words max. (plus references) in which his/her PhD project (or one of the papers of a cumulative dissertation) is presented and explicitly related to the course curriculum. The paper must include specific links to one or several texts from the course literature (further instructions will follow after acceptance to the course).
It is a precondition for receiving the course diploma that PhD students hand in the required paper in advance and attend the entire course.
Aims
Technology has long been part of the human experience. But our current moment represents a particularly intense instance of technological transformation, comparable in scope to the transformations brought about by steam engines, electrification, petrochemicals and similar innovations with profound implications for society, organizations and management. This is reflected in surging interest in questions about both specific technologies and technology in general in management and organization research as well as media and communication studies.
This PhD course explores these issues, examining the novel questions and dynamics occasioned by our current moment and its defining foundational technologies, the particular transformations that we are observing in management, organizations and society because of them, and the deep continuities that persist in spite, or because of, technological change. It will provide students with a state-of-the-art theoretical understanding of technology as it relates to management, organizations and society, and with an occasion to experiment with different theoretical perspectives that can inform empirical analysis of this evolving set of phenomena.
Content
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to, and let them experiment with, current perspectives in the social scientific analysis of technology, to understand technology as (shaping) an evolving context for research, focusing on management and organization studies and media and communication studies, and to reflect on the implications of technology and technological change. The course will address themes related to transparency, power, control, innovation, learning and ethics as they relate to technology and reflect on how these themes are impacted by the particular technologies that define our specific historical moment.
Students will learn how to engage with technology from a suite of theoretical perspectives, and to think about their own research through this expanded theoretical repertoire in order to do more interesting and assumption-challenging research.
Finally, students will be trained in the craft of writing about and communicating management and organizational research, with a focus on becoming better, happier and more productive academic writers.
Tentative program
Lectures will introduce a particular perspective on technologies and society that reflects the presenters own research agenda broadly conceived and exemplify the use of this perspective in a recent empirical project.
The course coordinators will facilitate student presentations and lead the discussion sessions.
Breaks are included in the allotted timeslots.
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
0800-0900 |
Doors open (@0800) Welcome (@0830) |
Doors open (@0800)
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Doors open (@0800)
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Doors open (@0800)
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Doors open (@0800)
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0900-1100 |
Lecture: Rasmus Koss Hartmann |
Lecture:
Mikkel Flyverbom
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Lecture: Algorithmic governmentality
Hans Krause Hansen |
Lecture: In/Visibility, social movements and platforms Oana Albu |
Lecture: Perspectives on technology and society: Implications for research and society Julie Uldam |
1100-1200 |
Writing about background |
Writing about theory |
Writing about methods |
Writing about findings |
Writing about discussion |
1200-1300 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
1300-1400 |
Student presentations |
Student presentations |
Student presentations |
Student presentations |
Student presentations |
1400-1500 |
Discussion and reflections |
Discussion and reflections |
Discussion and reflections |
Discussion and reflections |
Discussion, reflections and evaluation |
1800-2100 |
(nil) |
(nil) |
(nil) |
Course dinner |
(nil) |
Number of hours
30 hours of presence, 24 hours of direct teaching activity (6 hours set aside for lunch)
Teaching style
The course combines keynote lectures by MSC faculty with facilitated discussions and student presentations.
Learning objectives
Upon completing the course, students will:
- Be able to apply and reflect on a repertoire of state-of-the-art social science perspectives on technology, organizations and society
- Do so judiciously in the context of their own and others’ research projects in verbal and written form
Course literature (tentative)
For Monday:
Chosen by presenter
Hartmann, M. R., & Hartmann, R. K. (2023). Hiding practices in employee-user innovation. Research Policy, 52(4), 104728.
Perez. 2003. Technological Revolutions and financial capital. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Bodrozic, Hartmann & Krabbe. 2024. The ascendance and decline of entrepreneurialism: A Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective. Working paper.
Barley. 1986. Technology as an occasion for structuring: Evidence from observations of CT scanners and the social order of radiology departments. Administrative Science Quarterly.
Rosenberg. 1978. Pressures towards bigness. Science.
David. 1990. The dynamo and the computer: An historical perspective on the modern productivity paradox. American Economic Review.
For Tuesday:
Chosen by presenter
Flyverbom, M. (2022). Overlit: Digital Architectures of Visibility. Organization Theory, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221090314
Power, M. (2022). Theorizing the Economy of Traces: From Audit Society to Surveillance Capitalism. Organization Theory, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877211052296
Zuboff, S. (2022). Surveillance Capitalism or Democracy? The Death Match of Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization. Organization Theory, 3(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877221129290
Reaction paper
Bodrožić, Z., & S. Adler, P. (2022). Alternative futures for the digital transformation: A macro-level Schumpeterian perspective. Organization Science, 33(1), 105-125.
For Wednesday:
Chosen by presenter
Hansen, H. K., & Weiskopf, R. (2021). From Universalizing Transparency to the Interplay of Transparency Matrices: Critical insights from the emerging social credit system in China. Organization Studies, 42(1), 109–128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619878474
Thompson, J. B. (2005). The New Visibility. Theory, Culture & Society, 22(6), 31–51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276405059413
Galič, M., Timan, T., & Koops, B.-J. (2017). Bentham, Deleuze and Beyond: An Overview of Surveillance Theories from the Panopticon to Participation. Philosophy & Technology, 30(1), 9–37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-016-0219-1
Reaction paper
Felin, Teppo and Kauffman, Stuart, Disruptive Evolution: Harnessing Functional Excess, Experimentation, and Science as Tool (2023). Industrial and Corporate Change, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4374767
For Thursday:
Chosen by presenter
Albu, O. B. (2022). Managing Visibilities: The Shades and Shadows of NGO Work in Repressive Contexts. Management Communication Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/08933189221144991
Etter, M., & Albu, O. B. (2021). Activists in the Dark: Social Media Algorithms and Collective Action in Two Social Movement Organizations. Organization, 28(1), 68-91. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508420961532
Leybold, M., & Nadegger, M. (2023). Overcoming communicative separation for stigma reconstruction: How pole dancers fight content moderation on Instagram. Organization, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13505084221145635
Reaction paper
Chaundhry, I. (2014). Arab revolutions: Breaking fear|# hashtags for change: Can Twitter generate social progress in Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Communication, 8, 943–961. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2362
For Friday:
Chosen by presenter
Bennett, W. L., & Uldam, J. (2024). Corporate social responsibility in the disinformation age. Management Communication Quarterly, 08933189241261717.
Mansell, R. (2004). Political Economy, Power and New Media. New Media & Society, 6(1), 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444804039910
Uldam, J. (2019). Extra-parliamentarian political power and (social) media visibility. Journal of Political Power, 12(2), 293-311.
Reaction paper
Thompson, J. B. (2005). The new visibility. Theory, culture & society, 22(6), 31-51.
Registration Deadline and Conditions
The registration deadline is 20 December 2024. If you wish to cancel your registration, it must be done by this date. By this deadline, we determine whether there are enough registrations to run the course or decide who should be offered a seat if we have received too many registrations.
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Organizer Contact Information
CBS PhD School
Nina Iversen
Phone: +45 3815 2475
ni.research@cbs.dk
Organizer Contact Information
CBS PhD School
Nina Iversen
Phone: +45 3815 2475
ni.research@cbs.dk