JOUR 5320 - New Technologies of Mass Communication

3 hours

Theoretical and practical approaches to new technologies. Build and maintain weblogs (or “blogs”); analyze existing, mature blogs; discuss theories relating to Internet discourse of all sorts. Explores new technologies from the professional perspectives of working journalists and scrutinizes these same technologies from the perspectives of cultural critics who see not only a technology’s utility, but also its impact on society, its workers and its media content. Study of communications technology from historical perspectives in order to learn the broader lessons of intervention and diffusion; utopianism and dystopianism; literacy, orality (second orality) and electracy; identity, property, politics, economics; and other issues.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of school.