Saturday, February 5, 2011

COMS 178

Course Description


This course explores the nature of communication in virtual communities on the Internet and the impact that these communities have on traditional communication media and lifelong learning. 

Topics include: the interaction of real and cyber communities, online self-publishing, educational uses of virtual communities, virtual self-governance, artificial intelligent agents, and the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity.   

Students will participate in structured online activities and take part in the development of their own virtual communities.

2 comments:

  1. I know we are supposed to be talking about the class, but nice tracks! Hey, this still constitutes as blogging right? : ) This stuff isn't as hard as it looks.

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  2. Yo, good to have you in another class. See you on Wednesday. Glad you like Google Docs, always gave me problems.

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