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: 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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