Programming power! Governing by code in schools Seminar
- Time:
- 12:30 - 13:30
- Date:
- 23 October 2013
- Venue:
- Southampton Education School Building 32 (EEE), Room 2097
For more information regarding this seminar, please telephone Antonia Kupfer on 023 8059 3481 or email A.Kupfer@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Interest in teaching school children to write computer code has suddenly become popular.
In this seminar I’ll examine the "Make Things Do Stuff" programming initiative (run by Nesta, Mozilla and the Nominet Trust) from a "software studies" perspective on "algorithmic governance", "code as law", the "transactional politics" of databases, and "programming power". Is this a new mode of governing by code in school?
Speaker information
Dr Ben Williamson , University of Stirling. See link below.