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Ever since Daniel Bell first coined the term post-industrial society, computer technology has come to play an increasingly important role in contemporary society. On the continuum of technological development over the last thirty years, the Internet, in particular the World Wide Web, has emerged as the killer-application in terms of its global impact. As a result we now live in what can be termed the E-Society as the Internet affects all areas of our lives from communications and media to politics, commerce, health education and contemporary culture, but to name a few.
The overall aim of this module is to examine the affects of contemporary Web-based culture and the impact of the Internet on aspects of everyday life. Fundamentally this module will act as a link between the module on Multimedia Studies, in Year 1 and the module on Perspectives in the Information Society which will be offered as an optional module, in Year 3. It will also provide students with a theoretical understanding of key academic discourse and research in this area, which will be of particular benefit to students who wish to undertake academic research in this field as part of their final year thesis in year 3.
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