This unit explores today's new communications technologies. It focuses on the Internet and the World Wide Web and their cultural, economic and legal dimensions. Students investigate techniques of digital communications including principles of web site design. Through a series of case studies, they consider various industrial and community uses of digital communications, including the development of online websites by radio and television broadcasters and issues such as access to information and intellectual property. The unit provides an understanding of the global context in which digital communications are developing and debates about their social and cultural impact.