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English 350-192-012 Freshman Seminar: Cyberspace + Utopia = Cybertopia? Instr:
Pete Sands
Course Information: TR 3:30-4:45pm CRT 127
Course Description ***Course is conducted both online and in traditional classroom setting.
Internet access required to take this
Where do you want to go today? asks one technology company's advertisements, suggesting that there is a "place" to go to on the Internet--one that is better than where you already are. Is virtual reality any better than real reality? If you build a Good Place, will anyone want to live there? To answer these and other questions, we'll look at some popular and
scholarly definitions of "utopia," and explore both utopian fiction and
emerging technologies, especially those considered part of "cyberspace":
the World Wide Web, role-playing games such as MOOs and MUDS, and other
Internet technologies. We'll try to define and understand "utopia," define
and understand
To consider different ways the term "utopia" might be used, we will
read some fiction and criticism of utopia. To consider the Internet as
a potentially utopian place, we will both create and study World Wide Web
sites and MOO spaces--text-based virtual reality environments.
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