418250 VU Current Discourses in Media and Communication Science: Artificial Intelligence and Society
summer semester 2023 | Last update: 16.03.2023 | Place course on memo listThe students have acquired the ability to use digital communication constellations to judge their individual, organisational and social impact. They have in-depth knowledge of media and communication science in a specific sub-area of the subject.
Exemplary examination of current specialist scientific discourses with regard to the practical processing of concrete tasks in a selected topic area.
Impressively powerful „artificial intelligence“ applications like ChatGPT or Dall-E have attracted a lot of media attention recently. Smart technologies are applied to various social challenges, including global warming, and autonomous vehicles are firmly integrated into techno-utopian projections of the future. Yet, developments in the AI domain also introduce new social problems, of which the feared displacement of human labor is just one example. After clarifying basic technological aspects of AI, the course addresses such challenges; particularly concerning the redistribution of cognitive capacities and power between humans and smart machines. How can democratic societies benefit from the possibilities of adaptive algorithms without paving the way to a “rule of the machines”?
Lecture with discussion and student impulses
- exercises
- presentation of work results (exercises) in the plenum
- submission of a written paper
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"Active bachelor's programme"
The minor “Media and Communication” covering 30 ECTS-Credits can be selected by degree students of Bachelor’s programmes at the University of Innsbruck, providing the relevant curriculum allows for the option to pass a minor.
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