Abstract
Idealist thinking marked the development of the Internet and digital technologies, especially in the 1990s. Writers, both academic and popular, imagined a more democratic world where information would be unrestricted, communication would erase space, and technologies would free our time. In many ways, rhetoric about the Internet and other digital...Download this resource to see full details. Download this resource to see full details.
Details
- Subject Area(s):
- Communication and Information Technologies
- Resource Type(s):
- Syllabus
- Class Level(s):
- Any Level
- Class Size(s):
- Any
Learning Goals and Assessments
Learning Goal(s):
- Students will demonstrate the ability to identify the contradictions of digital technologies.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to critique the way that power operates with digital media.
- Students will demonstrate the ability to understand how meaning is created about digital technologies.
Goal Assessment(s):
- Students will write a digital technology critique in which they identify contradictions in digital technology.
- All students must write a final research paper in which they critique the way power operates with digital media.
- Through the semester's midterm, students can show that they learned how meaning is constructed about digital technologies.
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