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210116 PS G6: PS InformationSociety&E-Government (english) (2009S)

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 21 - Politikwissenschaft
Continuous assessment of course work

DDr. Walter Frisch
email: walter.frisch@univie.ac.at
http://www.univie.ac.at/frisch
http://staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=12312#c20539

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 50 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Monday 16.03. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 23.03. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 30.03. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 20.04. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 27.04. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 04.05. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 11.05. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 18.05. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 25.05. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 08.06. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 15.06. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 22.06. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)
  • Monday 29.06. 18:00 - 20:00 (ehem. Seminarraum 10 Hauptgebäude, Tiefparterre Stiege 5 Hof 3)

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The overall focus of the module is on the emergence of a so-called 'information society' and the role of 'Digital Identity & Privacy Developments ' in sustaining or reconfiguring social institutions and relations. We highlight issues and immediate challenges ranging from security to oversights of governments, profit sector and non profit sector in the context of indepemdeny and privacy related to the impact of advanced identification technologies, like profiling, on identity in and of the democratic constitutional state.

The question is: What does it mean that events, situations, persons, actions, processes and substances are continuously 'represented' in the form of e-data - both in terms of efficiency and in terms of organizational and social impacts of new technologies on the "traditional" world of public governance?
The bottom lines of the course will pinpoint main developments areas that will focus attention in Europe during the coming years:
- Registered passengers (speeding up airport and other travelchecks),
- Fight against welfare and identity fraud
- Biometrics to facilitate financial and commercial transactions.
- Will we have to spend a fortune to form biometric database and another fortune to protect it?
The main topics of our interest include but are not limited to: Integration of Security and Privacy Mechanisms Across Multiple Autonomous and/or Heterogeneous Platforms; Rights Management Systems for Tracking of Intellectual Property and Workflow; Assessing Impact of Distributed Collaboration on Privacy; Effects of Negotiation Strategies on Privacy; Confidentiality and Privacy in Critical Applications (healthcare application, business-to-business, e-government applications etc.).

Assessment and permitted materials

Grades will be based on a presentation and class attendance (20%), an e- midterm exam (20%), and a group¿s final term paper in english (60%) - minimum score of 75 percent.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

By the end of this course, students will have:
- an enhanced theoretical and practical understanding of the social, political, organisational, legal and economic processes and issues that are of concern to policy-makers, business leaders, governments and citizens providing a framework for thinking through policy choices and decisions related to authentication systems.
- should be able to: to design and conduct a search of electronic, mass media, Internet and digial archival materials for use in support of a project;
-demonstrate skills to compare, contrast, evaluate, analyze and presentation of such primary sources of such materials with a term paper in an appropriate academic format

Examination topics

Lectures & courses introduce the basic concepts, and students are expected to explore material in greater depth during tutorials and self-managed study.

Students are given an in-depth essay based assignment to research and complete during their own time.The course is promoting collaboration and group-working. The analytical approaches emphasizes on comparative research.
Each group of 5 students is expected to write a short proposal for research (1 page) and a (min 9 pages) ¿ termpaper in english in an appropriate academic format. Design and conduct a search of electronic, mass media, WWW and archival materials for use as documentary material in support of this term-paper, demonstrating skills in analysis and interpretation of such materials

Reading list

All reading requirements, additional current course informations and online reading materials are available at: Course Website: http://staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=12312
Powerpoint slides are available in pdf format for all lectures and tutorials.

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