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Being Online: Internet Meets Society (UNIB10005)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 2
Email: mvarnold@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Semester 2 - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
Being online is banal and dangerous, trivial and profound, disembodied but visceral. Terrorists and friends are online, along with trolls and lovers, funerals and games, pornography and Proust. Billions are made online from stuff that seems free; there are mass killings and cute cats; businesses, communities, universities, countless humans and even more non-humans, all networked, all interacting with unpredictable outcomes. The subject Being Online takes a landscape view of the experience of being online in all its breadth and complexity, unpacks it, and through critical assessment draws out its implications for us as individuals, and as the new online collectives that are still emerging. Lecture topics include online friendship and intimacy, the internet and a sense of self, uber-surveillance, online-feminisms, the internet of things, death and online media, online crime, and morality and ethics online.
Students will attend one lecture per week, one tutorial per week, and will participate in one hour of online activity and interaction per week. Four optional workshops are provided through the semester for those who want to improve their practical skills in being online.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject students should:
- Possess a critical understanding of the Internet as more than a technical phenomenon, but as a socially transformative and disruptive phenomenon;
- Be able to provide a multi-disciplinary account of the interplay between technical and social phenomena;
- Understand the broader ethical, social and legal implications of the Internet;
- Appreciate the open questions that remain in relation to, and conflicting theoretical accounts of, widespread Internet adoption and use;
- Experience participation in an online community.
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Compulsory participation in both on-line forums and in tutorials (20%) of which 10% is on-line participation and 10% is tutorial participation. Each is based on presence, quality, insight and constructiveness. This assessment will take place on a week-by-week basis. | Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Choice of an essay or report
| First half of the teaching period | 40% |
Choice of an essay or report or multimedia product
| During the examination period | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Note: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day. After five days late assessment will not be marked. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2 - Online
Principal coordinator Michael Arnold Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Students will attend one lecture per week, one tutorial per week, and be expected to to engage with one hour of online activity and interaction per week. Four optional workshops are provided through the semester for those who want to improve their practical skills in being online Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 24 October 2021 Last self-enrol date 6 August 2021 Census date 31 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 September 2021 Assessment period ends 19 November 2021 Semester 2 contact information
Email: mvarnold@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 19 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Subject readings will be available on-line and extensive use of other on-line resources will be made.
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
breadth.unimelb.edu.au/home
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 19 April 2024