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Kursusnavn (dansk):Environmental Networks 
Kursusnavn (engelsk):Environmental Networks 
Semester:Efterår 2014 
Udbydes under:cand.it., digital design og kommunikation (ddk) 
Omfang i ECTS:15,00 
Kursussprog:Engelsk 
Kursushjemmeside:https://learnit.itu.dk 
Min. antal deltagere:12 
Forventet antal deltagere:6 
Maks. antal deltagere:10 
Formelle forudsætninger:This course is the second part of the specialization 'Green Society and Technology'. In order to participate in this course you must have attended the first part of the specialization 'Green Society'. 
Læringsmål:After the course the student should be able to:

- Identify research questions relevant to the study of the relations between environment, society, and technology.

- Design a fieldwork project and generate ethnographic data using the data collections techniques introduced during the course.

- Analyze ethnographic data by means of situational analysis approaches

- Identify results of ethnographic research and present them to relevant stakeholders.

- Analyze relations between environment, society, and technology, including how these are understood in the course literature.

- Develop ideas and analytic frameworks for working creatively and imaginatively at the intersection of society, technology, and the environment. 
Fagligt indhold:Specialisation 'Green Society & Technology' (Part 2)

We live in a social and technical world that is inseparable from nature and the environment. Society and technology both effect, and are effected by, climate change, low carbon legislation, renewable energy targets, global manufacturing, and the demands and dreams for environmental sustainability

This course is part of the specialisation in 'Green Society & Technology', which is focused on the complex relationship between environment, green society and technology. The specialisation will provide students with an understanding of how energy systems also include the environment, organizations, and technologies. For example, energy systems rely on not just infrastructures but also NGOs who are concerned with their global impact. Energy systems also include hardware and software, from intelligent smart grids to green apps on a smartphone, all of which are parts of both the technical system and a green society.

'Environmental Networks' develops students’ expertise in field methods for studying the network of relations between environment, society and technology.

Fieldwork Methods
The course includes an introduction to basic ethnographic data collection techniques (interviews, participant observation, virtual ethnography and document analysis) and teaches students how to analyze ethnographic data by means of situational analysis.

An important part of the course will be to develop the analytic tools presented in the first course, to critically apply these tools as part of an ethnographic study of environmental networks.

Empirical Project
The main part of the course is a student fieldwork project, in which students will find a practical problem or fieldsite, related to the issue of Green Society & Technology. They will use the methods of data collection and analysis, developed in both courses, to address this practical problem. This empirical project work will be on a particular environmental network, the processes through which they are formed, and the environmental, social, and technical actors involved.

Research-Led Teaching
This course is linked to ongoing leading research at the IT University on social studies of technology and the environment (see the Energy Futures research cluster). The course draws on ideas in Science & Technology Studies (STS), Design Anthropology, Anthropology of Technology, and Sociology of the Environment. It will be supported by guest lecturers, from other universities and industry, who are actively working in this field. 
Læringsaktiviteter:

The course is structured around Seminar discussions, which will establish new methodological tools each week. Data Workshops will support the analysis and design of the fieldwork project to be carried out by the students during the course. 

Obligatoriske aktivititer:There are 2 mandatory activities that must be completed to an approved standard:
1. Submission of a written Research Proposal
2. Present a Data Workshop 
Eksamensform og -beskrivelse:X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 7-trins-skala, Ekstern prøve

The course will be examined by an individual report on the research question addressed by the empirical fieldwork project, the design of the method and data collection process, the results of the analysis, reflections by stakeholders on the work, and include methodological insights gained during the individual fieldwork projects.

The report hand-in will be followed by an oral exam based on this report, supplemented by attention to the literature from the course/specialization syllabus.  

Litteratur udover forskningsartikler:Literature will be predominantly research articles and book chapters.