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Hello world and welcome to my ETEC 531 Culture & New Media Studies e-Portfolio!

ETEC 531 Course Description

Here is the description of ETEC 531 – New Media Studies directly from the course syllabus. “New media technologies have intensified and transformed the way we communicate, the way we learn, and the way we teach. They have, we might say, transformed the student and transformed the teacher. But what is the nature of these changes? Cultural and new media studies are specifically oriented toward understanding the ways in which culture, nature and technology are converging to intensify and transform everyday life. This course provides a forum for exploring technocultural issues such as cyborgs and hybridity, digital property, cyberpunk fiction, the posthuman, AI and AEI, information warfare, virtual reality, third nature and religion. The course is organized around nine modules that correspond to the chapters and themes in the text, Culture and Technology.”

Course Module Topics & Readings
1. Theoretical Frameworks
2. Art and Technology
3. Digital Aesthetics: Cultural Effects of New Media Technologies
4. Science Fictions
5. Cyborgs: The Body, Information and Technology
6. Technology, Thought and Consciousness
7. Getting Wired: War, Commerce and the Nation-State
8. Living with the Virtual
9. Technology and Religion