Psychology of the Internet
Schedule
Course Schedule
- Week 1: Introduction:
- Class requirements, team building, raising of issues in Internet communications.
- Week 2: Discussion topics:
- Online taxonomy and conventions
- The relationship between people and the Internet
- Week 3: Who Do You Think You're Talking To?
- Online role playing.
- What is identity?
- Week 4: Teamwork via Computer Mediated Communication
(CMC)
- Week 5: Discussion: I'm A Stranger Here Myself: The Concept of Community on the Internet
- Week 6: Discussion: Are You Talkin' to ME?
- Week 5: Discussion: I'm A Stranger Here Myself: The Concept of Community on the Internet
- Disinhibition on the Internet
- Week 7: Sexuality on the Internet
- Week 8: Is the Internet a Proper Place for a Lady to Be at Nght?
- Week 9: I've Got a CyberMonkey on My Back: Is the Internet Addictive?
- Week 10: The Internet as Support Group
- Week 11: What Message is the Medium?: Development of Consciousness in the Internet Age.
- Week 12: To Boldly Go...: Where Will the Internet Take Our Minds?
- Week 13: Final Paper Due
- Week 8: Is the Internet a Proper Place for a Lady to Be at Nght?