Information Age: Internet and Society
Term:
Fall 2012
Subject Code:
GSOC
Course Number:
5115
The
internet has critically altered our ways of connecting with other people. This course intends to explore how the
ongoing development of communication and information technologies is embedded
in myriad social/cultural institutions and social processes. The topics include; the history of the
Internet, theories of networked society, internet and social capital, civil
society and democracy, cyber-economy and globalization, open source projects,
and 3D virtual worlds. The goal of this
seminar is to help students to create their own research projects in this
increasingly important site of sociological research.
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