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Nov 02, 2024
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COMM 480 - Moral Economies of Digital Media Units: 4 What are social and other emerging media? Who gains? How are they transforming the media landscape and how we inhabit the world? Analysis of a range of media tools and their implications toward what Trebor Scholz calls “participation literacy.”
Prerequisites: Department consent. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Identify and critique instances of technological determinism in popular discourse on social media technologies;
- Critically evaluate methodologies employed by studies of social media use;
- Describe social media practices among various social groups, differentiated by age, gender, race, and sexual identity, among others;
- Understand performances of identity in social media;
- Critically evaluate the potential for social media technologies to facilitate the formation of identities, communities, activist movements, and consumer markets;
- Articulate some of the ethical problems posed by emerging social media technologies.
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