Take Bergman worked as a journalist in the Netherlands before he attained a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include journalism and media industries
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Internet，Culture，Society 
本科生 硕士生 Undergraduate Master
English
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Lectures and discussions 
(1) Attendance and participation 20% (2) midterm and final exam: written essay questions 80% 
2 credits 
Take Bergman worked as a journalist in the Netherlands before he attained a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include journalism and media industries. He has presented papers at international conferences, and has published articles in leading academic journals and also a book on Dutch journalism. He is an assistant professor at Renmin University of China. 
The internet has quickly become a central feature of many societies all over the globe. This course examines issues pertaining to the internet and its influence on the United States, the birthplace of the internet. The course discusses technology’s (perceived) influence on society and vice versa, and other selected issues, including the relationships between the internet and the environment, the internet’s historical development, its commercial nature, internet policy, online culture, social networks and search engines, and the future of the internet. 
Session 1: Introduction: Technology and the West: Utopias & Dystopias. Discusses views on technology in Western societies employing the terms technological determinism, social construction of technology and affordances. Discusses the birth and historical development of the internet in the US and different views on that history. Session 2: Internet’s Influence on Society – and Vice Versa: Discusses the debate on the internet in the US, in other words the hopes of what the internet would bring society and assesses to what extent these hopes have materialized; raises the issue of the influence of society on the internet and discusses the main factors that influence the internet, including American capitalism. Also discussed are the (possible) effects of the internet as a technology on users, including shortening of attention span. Session 3: Internet and environment: Highlights the material nature of the “virtual” internet, its cables and servers and data centers; questions whether the internet really is the clean technology it is portrayed to be; Examines the influence of the internet on journalism in the US; raises the possibility that the internet has led to a worsening and narrowing of the quality of news. Session 4: Internet culture: vapid and rude? Discusses why so much content on the internet is superficial, and why people often behave rudely on the internet; midterm. Session 5: Internet advertising, commercialism and propaganda; tracks American government’s efforts to use the internet as a propaganda tool; discusses the changed nature of advertising online versus traditional advertising; questions the efficacy of advertising online; more broadly speaking, it discusses the consequences of the commercial nature of the internet. Session 6: Social communities and networks: tracks the rise of Facebook and other social network sites and discusses their business model and the characteristics of social networks: discusses the rise of Google and its monopoly position in the search engine market. Session 7: Internet policy: Examines American internet policy, including digital copyright, and the relationships between the internet and US politics. Session 8: Discusses the future of the internet, including the so-called ‘internet of things’; final exam. 
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