LECTURE TOPICS

Week 1: Introduction to Technocultures

Week 2 : What is Technology?

PART 1: TECHNOCULTURE AND THE INFORMATION AGE

Week 3 : Technodeterminism and Medium Specificity

Week 4 : Gender and the social shaping of technology

Week 5 : Electronic/Digital Technologies

Week 6 : Cyberspace and Virtual Reality

Week 7 : The Emergence of New Media

PART 2: TECHNOBODIES AND THE POSTHUMAN

Week 8 : Introduction to Part II

Week 9 : Cybernetics and Cyborgs

Week 10 : Virtual Sex and Teledildonics

Week 11 : Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence

Week 12 : Cyberanatomies: Cloning, Genetics and the Digital Human

Week 13 : Unit Overview

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