HADM 4815

Last Updated

  • Schedule of Classes - January 15, 2024 7:50PM EST
  • Course Catalog - January 15, 2024 7:28PM EST

HADM 4815
Digital Platforms

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

Platforms have become central to many of society's most important functions. You use them to find information (Google, Bing, etc.), communicate with friends (iOS, WhatsApp), find a date (Tinder, Bumble), book a flight (Google Flights), make hotel (Kayak) or restaurant reservations (OpenTable). There is a good chance you are reading this course description on a digital platform (OS X, Linux, or Windows). This seminar provides a multidisciplinary lens by which to study these organizations as the intersection of markets, technology, and institutions. The sessions will discuss how platforms have transformed labor, democracy, economics, law, and other aspects of social life. In doing so, this seminar will allow students to engage in discussions about surveillance, capitalism, inequality, power, and cooperation.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: undergraduate students.

Distribution Category (SSC-HA)

Outcomes
  • Students will be able to understand digital platforms from multiple academic disciplinary perspectives.
  • Students will be able to explain how digital platforms are reshaping the concept of labor and work.
  • Students will be able to understand how platform organizations wield power, especially in relation to consumers and the state.
  • Students will be able to possess a foundational understanding of how to create, compete with, or co-exist with platform organizations.

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HADM 6815

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19573 HADM 4815   LEC 001

  •  
    • MW Statler Hall 391
    • Aug 21 - Dec 4, 2023

    • Maffie, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    This seminar provides a multidisciplinary lens by which to study digital platforms as the intersection of markets, technology, and institutions. The sessions will discuss how platforms have transformed labor, democracy, economics, law, and other aspects of social life. Enrollment limited to undergraduate sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Graduate students must enroll in HADM 6815.