2024/2025

Virtual Reality and Cyberspace: Cultural Aspects

Type: Optional course (faculty)

Delivered by: School of Philosophy and Cultural Studies

When: 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 36

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Modern culture and modern society are characterized by an increasing fusion with the phenomena of virtual reality and cyberspace. This course analyzes the cultural changes taking place in connection with the development of various digital practices, artifacts in virtual reality and cyberspace. The processes of technologization and digitalization of modern culture are studied, considered through the socio-cultural dynamics of modern society, and the concepts of virtual reality and cyberspace are comprehended in the context of post-postmodernism, metavirtualism, metamodernism, trans-sentimentalism, etc. According to the researchers, intensive, large-scale development of the computer virtual environment is predicted in the future, which actualizes the issues of understanding these processes, their impact on humans, society and culture from the point of view of cultural aspects.