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Revision as of 15:25, 28 October 2025
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This course page is an automatically-updated version of the main course page at dashboard.wikiedu.org. Please do not edit this page directly; any changes will be overwritten the next time the main course page gets updated. |
- Course name
- Data and Society
- Institution
- University of Richmond
- Instructor
- Bpettis
- Wikipedia Expert
- Ian (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Communication Studies
- Course dates
- 2025-08-25 00:00:00 UTC – 2025-12-12 23:59:59 UTC
- Approximate number of student editors
- 18
Explores how topics such as algorithmic decision making, media manipulation, and “big” data affect our daily lives in the past and present. This course challenges that assumption and considers the many ways that data are never neutral. Many decisions—such as what information is recorded, how it is stored, and who it is shared with—imbue data with power. Accordingly, this course introduces students to political, economic, and cultural relationships which surround data. Students will consider various critical and scholarly debates regarding the contemporary and historical use—and misuse—of data across multiple contexts.
Students will use skills from the course to identify and evaluate open data sets published by the government at data.gov. Students will analyze a selected data set and use this as a starting point to research a topic and improve a Wikipedia article which is either a stub or lacking in detail/information.
