Making Knowledge

Faculteit der Cultuur- en Maatschappijwetenschappen

Making Knowledge

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Climate denialism, flat earthers, the anti-vaxx movement: we live in a world where “scientific facts” are increasingly doubted. But what makes a scientific fact, and what makes you doubt it? And how has fact-making and doubting changed with digitalisation? In this course, you will look at the ways that scientific knowledge is and has been made, disemminated, and (re)used in the past and present.

Doelstellingen van dit vak

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the ways that knowledge and ignorance are made and how they have changed.
  • Differentiate between the geographical, sociological, chronological aspects of making knowledge and doubt.
  • Analyse how digitalisation has influenced these aspects and ways of making knowledge and ignorance.
  • Evaluate your explanations of knowledge- and doubt-making and improve upon them.

Aanbevolen literatuur

Burke, P. (2012). A Social History of Knowledge II: From the Encyclopédie to Wikipedia. Polity Press.

Meyer, E. T., & Schroeder, R. (2015). Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities. MIT Press.

DSO2001
Periode 1
2 sep 2024
25 okt 2024
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Studiepunten: 
7.0
Taal van de opleiding: 
Engels
Coördinator:
  • M.S. Schleper
Onderwijsmethode: 
PBL, Lecture(s)
Evaluatiemethoden: 
Presentation, Portfolio
Trefwoorden: 
History, knowledge, infrastructures, misinformation, open science, exhibitions, publishing, digitalization, Science and technology studies