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

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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

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2005	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