Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

308965 (v.1) Internet Studies 395 - Network Culture and the Virtual Society


Area:

Department of Media and Information

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

2.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Seminar:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Equivalent(s):

309063 (v.1) NET35 The Internet - Network Culture and Virtual Society or any previous version

Prerequisite(s):

301052 (v.3) Internet Studies 103 - Socio-Technological Introduction or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

Engaging with the central issues that emerge from within a world made increasingly digital, interconnected and virtual by technologies such as the Internet. Students will select one of a number of topics and study it in detail. These topics include virtual ethics, network infrastructures and economies, the evolution and meaning of cyberspace, virtual collectivity, the intersections of so-called old and new media formations and the re-invention of time and space and the body through networked ICTs.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

07 - Foreign Languages, Visual and Performing Arts

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y     Y  
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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