Course Description

Media, Information and Technoculture 209F/G Cultures and Communities in Cyberspace

This course will introduce students to issues of diversity, community and culture in the online world of cyberspace. The relationship between virtual communities and other communities will be explored, along with issues of virtual ecology, environment, male-female relations, politics, ritual, expressive culture and spaces.

Prerequisite: Registration in the second, third or fourth year of an MIT program, or permission of the Faculty.

2 lecture hours, 2 laboratory hours, half course

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