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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 - 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, space and the body through networked ICTs.
 
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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

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