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New media and cyber cultures

  • AZA3436
  • South Africa First semester 2013 (Day)
  • 6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL
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In this unit students gain an understanding of the technological, social, economic and political forces driving the development, and adoption of new media and communications technologies. These driving forces and the adoption of new media and communications technologies are traced in terms of their relevance to South Africa and other African coutries. The unit uses case studies of South African and global examples of when 'old technologies were new' such as the telegraph and radio as well as the social shaping of very recent examples of new media, such as Online Social Networking and Twitter. Instrumentalist, substantivist and technologically determinist perspectives on new media will be... -- Course Website

Instructor: Joanah Gadzikwa



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