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Kursusnavn (dansk):ESST Intro 
Kursusnavn (engelsk):ESST Intro 
Semester:Forår 2016 
Udbydes under:cand.it., Digital Innovation & Management (dim) 
Omfang i ECTS:8,00 
Kursussprog:Engelsk 
Kursushjemmeside:https://learnit.itu.dk 
Min. antal deltagere:0 
Forventet antal deltagere:0 
Maks. antal deltagere:10 
Formelle forudsætninger:This course is intended for students who have completed Part 1 of ESST 
Læringsmål:• Develop research question(s) that allow for the exploration of a complex field of knowledge in an empirical case.
• Select and discuss the methods you plan to use, reflecting on the relationship between digital and other methods.
• Reflect on analysis as an iterative process and discuss the implications for objectivity.
• Using literature from the course, compare approaches to vision or complexity in STS and reflect on how this relates to questions of representation.
• Combine literature from the ESST 1st semester with literature from the specialization.
• Design and plan the upcoming MA Thesis research 
Fagligt indhold:How can the insights of STS be brought to bear on the complexities of contemporary questions of digital representation, accounts of innovation and scientific controversy? The ESST Specialization Navigating Complexity: Representation, Objectivity and the Digital at the IT University of Copenhagen brings core STS approaches from ANT, feminist techno-science and postcolonial approaches to science and innovation into conversation with contemporary mapping and visualisation techniques. Building on foundational STS literature and approaches encountered in ESST Part I and developed through this specialization, Navigating Complexity brings a critical lens to the issues of representation and objectivity, challenging students to develop skills in navigating this complexity through the use of digital methods.

The course opens with a focus on current paradigms of complexity itself, offering a range of analogue techniques through which complexity can be thought. Students are then introduced to digital visualization tools which come to comprise a personal tool box of analytic and visualisation techniques. Experimentation with different techniques for generating and visualizing complex fields of knowledge in an empirical domain is both supported and encouraged. Topics are chosen in accordance with the student’s own interest and a range of range of teaching techniques, from lectures to Practicums, are employed to ensure students take a hands on approach to the questions raised by the modules.

As part of this specialization, ESST students will be embedded within the ETHOS lab at the IT University of Copenhagen (www.ethos.itu.dk) and will have the opportunity, if desired, to research cases that are connected to the lab’s partner organizations. 
Læringsaktiviteter:

TBA 

Obligatoriske aktivititer:TBA 
Eksamensform og -beskrivelse:D11: Aflevering med mundtlig eksamen baseret på aflevering., (7-scale, external exam)

The specialisation prompts you to integrate the ESST 1st semester readings with the specialisation readings, and to sketch out an area of research for your thesis.
You will be expected to produce short (200 word) weekly comparative synopses, which will support future work.

The student is required to prepare two documents.
The first, an 6-8 page essay, selects a theme from the introductory course for discussion, and relates it to their proposed research project and previous semester’s readings. The second is a 2 page project description, which outines a research plan, research question, short methodological considerations, and includes a timeline.

The duration of the oral exam is 30 minutes per student  

Litteratur udover forskningsartikler:TBA