Week 1 –Introduction

Lab 1: Introductions

Week 2 – Race, Power and Feminism(s)

Readings:
– “Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach” by Wenda K. Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant, and Sal Restivo. (Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub. 2006 ). Introduction, (pg 19-32)
– “Keywords for media studies,” edited by Laurie Ouellette and Jonathan Gray. (New York: New York University Press 2017)
Race (pgs. 161-165), Power (pgs. 145-148), Feminism (pgs 68-72)

Lab 2: Workshop 1 Argument and Topic Sentence:

In this workshop, you will be introduced to the concept of a thesis statement, which tells the reader how you will interpret the significance of the subject matter under discussion. A thesis statement is not the topic of your essay but the way you are going to interpret it and how you are going to persuade the reader of your interpretation.

1. Read and review How to write a thesis statement.
2. Working in small groups you will individually come up with a thesis statement based on the question posed by your TA.
3. You will then take turns evaluating each other’s thesis statement by asking each other the questions
on “How do I know if my thesis is strong”
4. Submit your thesis statement and the feedback received from the group evaluation (point 3) to CANVAS
before the end of the Lab.

Week 3 – Online Quiz #1 / Technology and AI

Readings :
-STS (pgs, 32-48)
– Keywords, Technology (pgs.191-193)
– Anatomy of an AI, K. Crawford and M. Joler (PDF on CANVAS)

Week 4 – Ethical Writing Workshop w/Chantal Gibson and Adena Brons

Readings :
– STS, ( pgs, 90-100)
– Do Cyborgs Have Politics, D. Glabau
– Cyborg Manifesto, D. Haraway.

Week 5 – Cyborgs

Readings :
– STS (SKIM pgs.49-72)
– Keywords, Data (pgs. 55-58 )
– Keywords, Surveillance (pgs. 186-188)

Lab 5: Workshop #4 Essay Summary
Based on the discussion in the lab, draft a thesis statement and the supporting paragraph demonstrating how the paragraphs support the main argument.

Week 6 – Reading Quiz #2

Screening: Black Mirror, San Junipero

Lab 6: Mid Term Review:

In this lab, you will work on constructing an argument (thesis statement) that connects one of the themes of the final essay with the Black Mirror episode that we watched in lecture last week and one of the readings assigned in class.

1. Select a theme from the Final Essay Description
2. Develop a research question.
3. Select one reading that connects with the theme.
3. Use San Junipero as a source that helps you back up your argument.
* Remember and review the 4Cs of ethical writing when using the reading and San Junipero to help support your argument.

In the second part of the lab, you will practice paraphrasing and summarizing excerpts from readings in preparation for your midterm

Week 7 – Mid Term

Week 8 – Research Workshop w/Adena Brons

In Lecture Research workshop

Lab 8: Essay Outline Review
In this lab, TAs will introduce you to how to create an outline and discuss your topic in preparation for
your   draft #1

Week 9 – Screening

Assignment Due: Draft #1
Screening: Black Panther

Lab 9: Draft #1 Peer-Review
In this lab, you will work in groups of 3 and review your Draft #1 using the handout provided by the TAs.\
Note that you will need to submit:
1. A pdf of the peer-review hand out at the end of the lab to Canvas
2. You need to keep a physical copy  and use the feedback received to re-work your draft

Week 10 – No lecture (Individual Appointments with Instructor )

Assignment Due: Draft #1

Lab 10 : Draft #1 Peer-Review
In this lab, you will continue to revise your drafts in small groups and meet individually with your TA if
you booked an appointment in advance.
Make sure you are following the suggested steps to frame your essay (see below)
Then you will revise your introductory paragraph and highlight the areas of your essay that engage with reading course material and the areas in which you are using external academic sources.

Suggested steps to develop an essay for IAT 206W
For this assignment, you are being asked to join a conversation. You must identify and build on a major idea or theme discussed so far in the course. You will formulate your own paper topic, but the topic must arise directly from the themes presented in the IAT206W course materials (see list below).

1. Identify a debatable issue or problem-related to key themes presented below:
. Human and non-human relations mediated by technology.
. Technology and Science as a means to control different conceptions of Nature.
. Race and Gender as systems of exclusion or liberation under capitalism.
. Conflicting conceptions of technology and science

For this example, I selected:
“Human and non-human relations mediated by technology.”

2. Formulate a research question. Look back at readings or media discussed in class and/or an issue that caught your attention and ask  Who?; What?; When?; Where?; and Why?

Example Research Question: “Can humans with implanted technologies develop more empathic relations with other organisms? (Research Question)”

3. Which class readings ( internal sources) related to that question/theme?
For this example, the readings that can help me answer my question are:
– Glabau, Do Cyborgs Have Politics?
– Technology
– STS – Technological Determinism
– Power

4. Look for 3 academic sources that relate to the theme. Use SFU library databases.

5. You can also select one of the films/tv-episodes that we watched in class to help the development of your argument. You can use a scene, a character or a plot of one of the movies as an example.

Week 11 – In Lecture Draft Review w/Chantal Gibson and Adena Brons

Assignment Due: Draft #2

Lab 11: Workshop 1
Argument and Topic Sentence.

In this lab, students who booked individual appointments with TAs will meet during lab time. To book appointments check your CANVAS calendar.

Week 12 – No lecture. Individual Appointments w/Students

Week 13 – Final Essays Due