Demonstrate a command of models of the new media

·To define the models of how Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) change power relations within nation-states;
·To analyse critically international conceptions of freedom on the Internet;
·To examine how ICTs are used to manage conflict in both democratic and non-democratic nation-states;
·To analyse how terrorists use ICTs;
·To define the `social netwar` model and its implications for social movements;
·To analyse the role of the Internet in generating social capital in both democratic and authoritarian nation-states;
·To analyse critically the role of the Internet in the development of global civil society.

·Demonstrate a command of models of the new media;
·Evaluate critically the control systems that regulate political activism on the Internet;
·Assess the implications for global civil society of the `digital divide`;
·Assess the implications for political elites of increasing Internet consumption in both democratic and authoritarian nation-states;
·Explain the contextual factors that facilitate social netwar;
·Analyse critically how terrorists use the Internet;
·Assess whether ICTs can generate bridging social capital in divided societies;