305993 (v.2) Internet Studies 695 - 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 |
| Prerequisite(s): | 300579 (v.4) Internet Studies 502 - Internet Communications 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. |
| ** 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*: | Fully Online *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
| Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
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Curtin University of Technology
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