Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The course will provide a historical overview of the development of information technology, tracing its evolution in a functional sense (development of information systems) and technological (development of the computer), and emphasizing the element of 'interdisciplinary'.
We will explain some tools for the treatment of legal information and some basic concepts to make students able to perform research in databases autonomously.
We will therefore introduced and discussed some ethical and political issues raised by the social pervasiveness of information technology, paying attention to issues related to the protection of freedom of speech, privacy, piracy.
They will introduce some historical notions related to social control and surveillance. It will be analyzed the concept of 'information society' and the influence of new technologies on the functioning of democracy. It will focus also on certain aspects of computer ethics, pointing to influences and interdependencies between computer science and other disciplines (such as genetics and biology), to discuss the difficulties that arise in terms of their adjustment. The course will host some seminars conducted by experts and scholars in the field.