This week’s topics
Technology and society
- Jobs and skills
- Privacy and the digital divide
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Discuss the societal impact of these technologies.
Activity
Debate whether new technology helps everyone equally.
Study materials
Further resources
- Workplace Software and Skills, 1.1: Workplace and Career Implications · PDF · OpenStax Workplace Software and Skills (2023), 1.1 on how technology changes jobs and skills, pp. 26–27 · for registered students
- ITU Facts and Figures 2025: digital divides · PDF · ITU Facts and Figures 2025, sections on gender, age and urban–rural digital divides, pp. 3–8 · for registered students
- Foundations of Information Systems, 6.1: Data Privacy and Data Security · PDF · OpenStax Foundations of Information Systems (2025), 6.1: personal data and privacy, pp. 209–217 · for registered students
- Determinants of Internet skills, uses and outcomes: a review of the second- and third-lev… · Open-access article · Scheerder et al. (2017), Telematics and Informatics. Review of the digital divide: skills, uses and outcomes. · for registered students
- The relation between 21st-century skills and digital skills: a systematic literature revi… · Open-access article · van Laar et al. (2017), Computers in Human Behavior. Review of the digital skills needed for study and work. · for registered students
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