Friday, June 3, 2011

SOC396: Cyberspace and Social Relations

This special topics course has seats available for the fall. Should be interesting - I've never seen the word "panopticism" used in a course description before. Here's the blurb I received:

We will be studying the networks that constitute "cyberspace" and the ways that they are embedded in the older worlds of "meatspace." We will address such topics as social networking, virtual reality,  panopticism, anonymity and accountability, identity construction, intellectual property regimes, electronic  democracy, telecommuting, digital divides, distributed knowledge, and online learning. Most of our  texts/materials will themselves be available online, though interested students may want to get paper copies of Lessig's _Code_v2.0_ and Rheingold's _Virtual_Community_.