This class exists in these courses :
• Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Licence 2 Médias Culture et Communication - S3 - 3 ECTS

Learning outcomes

Considering Internet as a communication network, the
class will try to examine the characteristics of communication through the
means of networks.It will analyse the
foundations of networks organisations and the advancements it represents
for humanity. The class offers an initiation to web culture and to the concept
of virtual communities.

Course description

Sharing informations , collaboration,
participation, free, abolition of borders… will be tackled as an introduction
to online communities and communication inside those communities.

Dealing with communication and
networks implies the process of creation
of those communities and solidarity. Therefore, we will deal with “collective
intelligence”

Different forms of virtual
communities will be studied : leisure industry, commerce activities…..

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Recommended reading

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  • Leyens, J.P. & Yzerbyt, V. (1997). Psychologie sociale : Liège : Mardaga.
  
  
  • Plivard, I., (2014) Psychologie interculturelle, Bruxelles : De Boeck