At the end of the course the student can:
- Appraise whether information, as needed for some goal, can be found on the internet.
- Appraise if and how the desired information can be located on the internet.
- Judge critically whether information found on the internet is useable for a specific goal, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
- Against the background of the previous points, appraise how computers process information, how language technology and artificial intelligence play a role in this, and how well such technology works.
- Be aware which activities on the internet can pose a threat and how one can arm oneself against such threats.
- Appraise whether specific behavior during the compilation of information is (un)ethical.
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Whenever we feel like a shot of information, we go to the bar called Internet. And unless we really feel like something different, we let bartender Google mix us a nice cocktail. Up to now, we could be content with that, because we always got something appealing put in front of us. However, it is high time to step into the bar a bit more aware and to ask ourselves what exactly is in those bottles, how it was made, if it is proper and safe, and if the bartender really gives us what we want. In this course, we investigate all these questions. What exactly is “the internet”, what kind of information is present there and where does it come from? What do we actually mean by the word “information” anyway? How do search engines choose what they offer us and are they doing their job well? How can we, as users, get what we want, avoid what we don’t want, and furthermore behave ethically in our internet-based activities.
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