This course aims to provide productive theoretical discussions about technology and social change by focusing on the contextual debates concerning five historical periods; modernity, industrial revolution, the postmodern critique, the technological turn and the contemporary revolution in digital technologies.

Another aim of this course is to create a casual perception about technology that it is a part of our daily lives, practices, our bodies, genders, of who we are. To have a broader understanding of technology, topics of this seminar include technological determinism, social construction of technology, actor-network theory, modernity and post-modernity; work, economics, and gender.