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Here’s what you are in for:
Course description (from the About page).
This course will offer a survey of key ideas in media studies and will explore how interactive media technologies are changing the ways in which we communicate, consume, create, do business, learn, make knowledge, and act individually or collectively as citizens. We will approach new media from a cultural perspective, with a focus on how media technologies figure in practices of everyday life and in the construction of various social relationships and identities. We will work from a broad definition of “social media,” considering social network sites, smartphone apps, and online games, among other electronic media. We will likewise explore how interactive technologies enable us to become producers as well as consumers of content. We will approach the Internet as generative and will ourselves create and share various media including images, video and audio. We will, in other words, actively participate in the phenomena that we study.
Course Objectives
1) Students will be introduced to the key principles and theory of new media
2) Students will critically engage the development of computer mediated communication
3) Students will explore the social implications of the proliferation of new media as well as the ways in which they figure in and shape the practice of everyday life
4) Students will become familiar with and proficient with online tools, resources and techniques for production and sharing of electronic media including images, video, and audio.
Here’s to an exciting semester!
