Technological Solutionism versus Structural Reform
Exploring how different technologies (e.g., phones, social media, email) have changed the way we communicate and connect with others.
Key Questions
- Evaluate the critique that technological solutionism depoliticises social problems by recasting structural injustices as engineering challenges amenable to technical fixes rather than redistributive politics.
- Analyze a specific domain — food insecurity, urban inequality, or public health — to assess whether a prominent technological intervention addressed root causes or displaced responsibility from political actors onto individuals and algorithms.
- Construct a principled argument distinguishing the conditions under which technological innovation constitutes a legitimate instrument of social reform from those in which it functions as a substitute for political will.
MOE Syllabus Outcomes
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