Living with Big Tech, social media and AI (CMP 02)

• Day and time: Wednesday 9:50 - 10:50
  Weekly
• Length of course: 1 term. Autumn (5 Weeks)
• Number of places: 30
• Start date: 08 October 2025
• Description:

  This short course is designed to help you better navigate the digital world in which we live. It will examine how Social Media and Big Tech came to be so influential; their impact on society and democracy; what is being done to better regulate their activities and where we might expect them to go with the growing influence of AI. It is not a course about how to use Facebook or similar platforms, but more to help you better live with them safely.

• Format: Lecture

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• Tutor: Tim Ewbank
  
• I have been observing of the impact social media and related these technologies have on society since they became massively popular in mid-2000s. I use AI in researching and preparing course materials.

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