From Autumn 2006, Harvard Law School and the Harvard Extension School are offering a course called Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion both to the Internet-using public, and to Harvard Extension students:
"If we do say so ourselves, the course will be unlike any that has ever been taught. It is a course in persuasive, empathic argument in the Internet space. Throughout the course we will be studying many different media technologies to understand how their inherent characteristics and modes of distribution affect the arguments that are made using them. Students will be immersed in this study through project-based assignments in which they will be using these technologies to make their own arguments."
The subject matter of the course is "the creation and delivery of persuasive argument in the new integrated media space constituted by the Internet and other new technologies". People doing the course as Harvard Extension students will experience parts of the course through a virtual world called Second Life.
Course web site. Flash movie in which Professor Charles Nesson and an "avatar" version of his daughter Rebecca Nesson explain the course. Text-based official description of the course.
Discovered via David Weinberger.
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