COM 331 - Critical Communication Approaches to New Media

Semester Hours: 3
This course will introduce students to a variety of skills and practices needed to successfully negotiate the increasingly digital world of communication. Additionally, students will study the influence and impact of digital technologies on the processes of communication, including the ways in which technology both enhances and limits our individual, social, organizational, and cultural communicative capacities students will learn how to assess and critique new media in professional and intelligent ways that you can take with you into the workplace or your personal lives. Concepts discussed include the effects of new media on public memory, the influences of new media in contemporary global political movements, public sphere theory, the dynamics of publicity and secrecy in the age of new media, identity formation in virtual communication settings, and many others.

Pre-requisites: GEN 112 - Composition II: Argumentation and Research and completion of one 200-level COM course.

Offered: Spring, even years.