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Advising Track: Cyberculture

The Cyberculture track focuses on online culture and other creative uses of information technology. This track will give students a better understanding of the cultural aspects of computers and the Internet, and it can apply to careers in law or creative production in today’s multimedia world.

INFO 326 · New media, culture, & society

Digital media is an immensely pervasive and powerful form of communication that despite its rapid growth has yet to reach most of the world’s population.

  • This lecture-based survey course for undergraduates traces
  • the history and formation of personal computing and the Internet,
  • the development of virtual communities and virtual worlds,
  • evolving forms of digital representation and communication, igital visual cultures,
  • features of new media industries, and
  • the rise of participatory media.