Course Description

Media, Information and Technoculture 244F/G Cyber-communication: Communications and Learning Technologies in Contemporary Society

An exploration of the importance of electronic communications and learning technologies to society, politics and culture. Topics include: theories relating communications to social organization; political economy of information and media; power, privacy, equity, access, gender, emergent cultures/ identity in cyberspace; changing knowledge and learning in an age of convergent communications.

Prerequisite: Two of: Media, Information and Technoculture 024a/b, 025a/b, 026a/b, Computer Science 031a/b, the former Journalism 024a/b, 025a/b; or permission of the course instructor.

2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, half course

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