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Kursusnavn (dansk):Globalisering, organisering og kommunikation 
Kursusnavn (engelsk):Globalization, Organization and Communication 
Semester:Forår 2013 
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:20 
Maks. antal deltagere:30 
Formelle forudsætninger:This course is the final part in the DDK specialization "Global IT and Organizations" and follows the course Distributed Collaboration and Development (DCD). However, the DCD course is not required to enroll in Globalization, Organization and Communication.

Information about the course of study
This course is the second part of a specialization on the Master of Science in IT, study programme Digital Design and Communication. See a description of specializations on DDK here (in Danish):
Master of Science Digital Design and Communication  
Læringsmål:After the course the student should be able to:

Characterize relevant analytical approaches to globalization.

Explain the strengths and weaknesses of different analytical approaches to globalization.

Apply concepts and analytical tools from science and technology studies and related areas of social science to social and tecnical processes relating to global organization.

Conduct empirical studies of global organizational practices and identify areas of problems and possibility for change.

Specify and discuss challenges and possibilities relating to the use of information technologies in global organizational contexts.

Develop ideas and frameworks for working creatively and imaginatively with global technological organization and communication. 
Fagligt indhold:‘Globalization’ is a concept that has had enormous effects over the past decades, from the global multi-national corporation to global climate change, the global financial market, to ideas such as the ‘global village’.

Communication and IT technologies have been central to organizations as they extend their everyday work practices and markets into more countries. Communications and IT facilitates out-sourcing, flexible working, international collaboration, ‘just in time’ manufacturing, as well as requiring new and creative ways to work across diverse technology infrastructures and cultures.

Globalization is an everyday experience, not just in large corporations, but also in small communities, from Jutland to the Amazon, where natural resources such as wind and wood are exploited to power this phenomenon.

How can we engage in an informed and critical way in the extraordinary process that is globalization? How can we think differently about its implications for design? How to understand this intersection between globalization, communication technology, and organization?

This course is part of the Globalization specialization and can complement the course Distributed Collaboration and Development. It draws on the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and related areas of social science to provide students with a set of tools to analyze the challenges and possibilities for organizations and communities in the global world.

The course will be supported by guest lectures and workshops with people from diverse global industries and organisations.

Objectives
The two main objectives of the course are:

1. To enable students to identify, analyze and discuss social-technical challenges and possibilities that arise in a globalized organization.
2. To enable students to conduct an empirical study of technology-mediated work practices in a globalized organization.

Themes
The course introduces a set of ‘tools’ for analyzing globalization in everyday life through four themes:

Global Dreams
What do different organisations and groups of people mean by globalization, what myths and dreams of the future does it evoke, what does it mean to design for a globalized world, how might we imagine and design for globalization differently?
Global Objects
How are global objects made and maintained? How to understand an object that is global? How to explore both the social and technical aspects of global objects? How to understand the politics of global objects?
Global Flows
How do things flow around communication and organizational networks? How to think differently about global infrastructures, from telecommunications networks to container ships? How to understand when and how global flows are cut and for whom e.g. national borders and their effects on different bodies and data.
Global Communities
How do different people live in networked international communities and organisations: from wealthy executive ‘global nomads’ to blogging and social networking in Caribbean islands?

See the schedule here:
link to the time table
The schedule will be available shortly before the beginning of the term. 
Læringsaktiviteter:

The syllabus will comprise approximately 750 pages of literature.

Practical project work is ongoing throughout the course, and will involve: identifying an organization as fieldsite for research, making a research plan (including formulation of research questions and methods, making observations and interviews with relevant people, and analyzing written material), writing an executive summary, and the production of a final examined written report.

Teaching is in the form of seminars and workshops, during which students will be expected to participate in discussions led by the course manager. Students will be expected to prepare critical questions on course readings, give oral presentations, lead research seminar discussions, collaborate on critical writing, and provide mutual feedback on the development of their empirical projects. 

Obligatoriske aktivititer:Der er ingen obligatoriske aktiviteter. Vær venlig KUN at ændre denne tekst når der er obligatoriske aktiviteter./
There are no mandatory activities. Please, change this text ONLY when there are mandatory activities. 
Eksamensform og -beskrivelse:X. experimental examination form (7-scale; external exam), 7-trins-skala, Ekstern censur

Mandatory requirements for the course: students must submit a research plan mid-way through the course, and are required to run a research seminar (including oral presentation) in order to be eligible for the final exam.  

Litteratur udover forskningsartikler:** Draft syllabus --- subject to change **

Theme Global Dreams

Multiple Dreams

Beck, Ulrich (2000) “Introduction” and “The World Horizon Opens Up: On the Sociology of Globalization”. What is Globalization? Cambridge: Polity Press.

Inda, Jonathan Xavier, and Rosaldo, Renato (2008) “Tracking Global Flows”. Inda, Jonathan Xavier, and Rosaldo, Renato (Eds.) The Anthropolopgy of Globalization: a Reader, Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Following Dreams

Juris, Jeffrey S. (2008) “Introduction: The Cultural Logic of Networking”. Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization. London: Duke University Press.

Marcus, George E. (1995) “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography”. Annual Review of Anthropology 24: 95-117.

Situated Dreams

Haraway, Donna (1991) “Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privaledge of partial perspective”. Simians, cyborgs and women: the re-invention of nature. London: Free Association Books.

Deese, R.S. (2009) "The Artifact of Nature: 'Spaceship Earth' and the Dawn of Global Environmentalism". Endeavour 33(2): 70-75.

Theme Global Objects

Technological Systems

Law, John and Michel Callon (1992) "The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change". W. E. Bijker and J. Law (Eds.) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. London: MIT Press.

Hughes, Thomas P. (1989) “The Evolution of Large Technological Systems”. W. E. Bijker, T. P. Hughes and T. Pinch (Eds.) The Social Construction of Technological Systems — New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press,

Infrastructure

Edwards, Paul (2003) “Infrastructure and Modernity: Force, Time and Social Organization in the History of Sociotechnical Systems”. T. J. Misa, P. Brey and A. Feenberg (Eds.) Modernity and Technology, Cambridge: MIT Press. 185-225.



Bowker, Geoffrey C. and Susan Leigh Star (2000) “Introduction: To Classify is Human” and “Categorical Work and Boundary Infrastructures: Enriching Theories of Classification”. Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Sociotechnical Objects

Akrich, Madeline (1992) “The De-Scription of Technical Objects” Wiebe E. Bijker and John Law (Eds.) Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change. Cambirdge: MIT Press.

de Laet, Marianne and Annemarie Mol (2000) "The Zimbabwe Bush Pump: Mechanics of a Fluid Technology" Social Studies of Science 30: 225-263.

Theme Global Flows

Organisational Flow

Vaughan, Diane (1999) "The Rôle of the Organization in the Production of Techno-Scientific Knowledge" Social Studies of Science 29(6): 913-943.

Riles, Annelise (2001) “Designing the Facts” The Network Inside Out. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Financial Flow

Ho, Karen (2009) Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street” and “Leveraging Dominance and Crises Through the Global” Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street” Durham: Duke University Press.

Tsing, Anna (2005) “Inside the Economy of Appearances” Public Culture 12(1): 115-144.

Bodies Flow

Adey, Peter (2004) "Secured and Sorted Mobilities: Examples from the Airport" Surveillance and Society 1(4): 500-519.

Green, Nicola (2002) "On the Move: Technology, Mobility, and the Mediation of Social Time and Space" The Information Society 18: 281-292.

Theme Global Communities

Internet Communities

Kelty, Christopher (2005) “Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive

Publics”. Cultural Anthroplogy 20(2): 185–214.

Miller, Daniel and Slater, Don (2000) “Conclusions”. The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. Oxford: Berg.

Environment Communities

Tsing, Anna (2005) “Chapter 1: Frontiers of Capitalism” Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Ellis, Rebecca and Waterton, Claire (2004) “Volunteers and Citizenship: Environmental Citizenship in the Making: the participation of volunteer naturalists in UK biological recording and biodiversity policy”. Science and Public Policy 31(2): 95-105. 
 
Afholdelse (tid og sted)
Kurset afholdes på følgende tid og sted:
UgedagTidspunktForelæsning/ØvelserStedLokale
Torsdag 12.00-13.50 Forelæsning ITU 4A22
Torsdag 14.00-15.50 Øvelser ITU 4A22

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2013-05-22 No later than 2PM Eksamensopgave 1 ITU Student Affairs and Programmes, wing 3D