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Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism

When you'll study it
Semester 1
CATS points
15
ECTS points
7.5
Level
Level 5
Module lead
Ashton Kingdon
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

This module introduces you to the concept of ‘techno-harms’ from the disciplines of sociology, criminology, and social policy, with a particular focus on zemiology, to investigate the infliction and perpetuation of technologically induced social harms. The module will enable you to think critically about the ways in which racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, Anti-Gender politics, environmentalism, extremism, conspiracy theories, human trafficking, and border control manifest in cyberspace and how technologies can help accelerate and prevent the subsequent harms.