Contemporary Issues in the Information Age

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Department:	Political Science
Number:	PSC 300
Title:	Contemporary Issues in the Information Age
Web page:	Available here

Description

We are living in a period of major a historical transformation, Information Technology Revolution, as was the 18th century the Industrial Revolution. The extensive and systematic use of scientific knowledge and networked information technology in a society introduces new forms of relationship in the economy, state, society as well as in our private life. Contemporary society witnesses the unprecedented transformation in the processes of production and distribution changing the material basis of the human species, which will shape new sets of relationships in our political system and culture. In such a newly emerging networked society, there are many challenging socio-economic and political issues to be addressed. For example, Internet and politics of election campaigns, global civic alliance, taxation/security in the global and domestic Electronic Commerce, disputes over various kinds of intellectual property rights, new management system in the Internet, censorship and privacy in the virtual space, and new forms of regulation policy in the telecommunication industry. Furthermore, this networked society has to deal with the structural crisis of the legitimacy of the political community and identity as well as political changes from the cyber public sphere. Good examples are changes in the gender relationship, the future of the nation state, and Internet impacts on social capital. This course is designed to examine such major contemporary socio-economic and political issues in the advent of Information Society.

Contacts

Jongwoo Han