Week 9 Tutorial

My online essay will be on the following topic :

The idea of the internet as cyberspace has been a part of our contemporary culture for some time, particularly in the popular medium of film. But is the concept of cyberspace still relevant to our contemporary society? Discuss with reference to your own experience of contemporary media.

Building learning communities in cyberspace

RM Palloff, K Pratt - 1999 - online2.org

I've chosen this particular journal article that refers mainly to the use of 'Virtual Classroom' which I've discussed at length with my parents who are both teachers. It also talks about the importance of student buy in which suggests these sorts of communities can exist online all they want but don't matter until people make the effort to get involved.

Building learning communities in cyberspace

RM Palloff, K Pratt - 1999 - online2.org

This journal will provide a good outline of how online communities were approached last decade. From the introduction and snippets I've read so far it seems to have a completely different outlook to what we are faced with now on the now (even more ) security conscious and media flooded internet.

Hollywood versus the Internet, media and entertainment industries in a digital and networked economy

A Currah - Journal of Economic Geography, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press

This journal extract talks about the distribution of films and television, how Hollywood has reacted to this new method, file sharing and how studios have tried to deal with this change.

The organizational underpinnings of contemporary media conglomerates

J Turow - Communication Research, 1992 - crx.sagepub.com

This journal extract ( edited further and published online in 2006) explains the differences between private and public domains and how we now have a new theory of how collective action can better account for certain contemporary phenomena.

The governance of cyberspace: politics, technology and global restructuring‎

by Brian Loader - Social Science - 1997


Specifically the chapters relating to policing cyberspace and theorising cyberspace. This journal is the outcome of a small conference held in Tennessee in 1995 , the political implications of a cyberspace and who is responsible.