Global Digital Law and Politics
Harvard Summer School
LSTU S-133
Section 1
CRN 35571
This course aims to provide students with an overview of issues relating to the relationships between digital technologies, politics, and law. It also introduces students to theoretical frameworks for examining the mutually interactive relationships between technology, law, and social order, where technology is both an object and source of governance. The course covers contemporary issues such as cyberlaw, digital infrastructures, surveillance, platforms and informational capitalism, datafication, privacy, data protection, the role of platforms in the governance of online speech, intermediary liability, blockchain, financial technologies, and the relationship between technology and inequality.
Registration Closes: June 20, 2024
Credits: 4
View Tuition Information Term
Summer Term 2024
Part of Term
3-week session I
Format
On Campus
Credit Status
Graduate, Noncredit, Undergraduate
Section Status
Open