Technocracies: The Challenges and Opportunities of Tech Professionals on the Front Lines of Social Change

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

Tech professionals wield unusual power to shape the lives and opportunity structure through their work. There is also little political appetite for regulation of tech advancements. In what ways do postindustrial societies resemble technocracies? What are the consequences of heading further in that direction? What are the risks, potential opportunities, and policy implications of having tech at the helm of changes in social life?

Sub Unit

• Special Session

Presider

• Sharla N. Alegria, University of Toronto

Panelists

• Ethel L. Mickey, California State Univ-San Bernardino

• Patrick Sheehan, Boston University

• Firuzeh Shokooh-Valle, University of Puerto Rico

• Jordan Brensinger, University of Toronto

Session Organizer

• Sharla N. Alegria, University of Toronto