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CU2112:03
Communication, Technologies and Change
13 hours lectures, 26 hours practicals. Semester 2. Internal delivery mode (Townsville campus); Limited Attendance (video linkage/WWW) (Cairns campus).
Professor P Turnbull.
This subject is a core subject in the BA (Communication). However, it is open to all interested students. It examines the social, economic, political and cultural changes surrounding the use of new modes of communication. Students will explore the impact of communication technologies on the social lives of communities and the prospects for access to information. Special attention will be paid to the implications of information technologies for social and ethnic minorities and low-income communities.
understanding of major ideas, concepts and theoretical perspectives bearing on the interplay of communication technologies and change;
knowledge of the impact of new communications on life-ways and culture in differing contemporary contexts;