Online Courses Handbook 2003

306013 (v.1) Internet Studies 316 - Time, Space and the Cyberbody

Area:	School of Media and Information
Contact Hours:	2.0
Credits:	25.0
Seminar:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	301052 (v.3) Internet Studies 103 - Socio-Technological Introduction or any previous version
Our traditional understandings of time, space and the body have been profoundly affected by the widespread adoption of Internet technology. Examination of how our experience of cyberspace might destabilise understandings of subjectivity and identity. What happens to the body in cyberspace? Are we creating 'posthumans' or new technobodies?