COM-421 Media Frontiers †

A study of the historical development and contemporary practice of new media and online communication technologies. Students will investigate the changing role of journalism and mass media in an online environment; examine online entrepreneurship and new media startups; and analyze the changing roles of readers and writers in the online media environment. The growing importance of social networks and social media in advertising, marketing and public relations will also be reviewed. Students will learn the new ways and forms in which knowledge is being created, including the changing role of libraries, online scholarly publications, the so-called wisdom of crowds, and online information literacy.