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2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COM 4326 - New Media & Digital Communication

Credits: 4
This course provides an overview of the history of new media and examines various contemporary issues related to social media, digital communication, and technological evolution, including surveillance, privacy, big data, human quantification, identity, knowledge (creation, distribution, and ownership), and mediated relationships (human to human and human to machine). Ultimately, this course provides a foundation for understanding new media technologies, their numerous impacts on social life, and the way social life impacts the development and use of new media technologies.
Prerequisite(s): COM 1020   and COM 2401   or COM 2801