Description:
Virtual communities have been around since the 1980s. Today social media and emerging digital tools—like Twitter, Google+, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, Slideshare, Youtube, and Facebook--allow all citizens to easily collaborate, participate, create and publish. This hands-on, immersive course explores new and emerging social media, focusing a lens on how we might recognize and harness the opportunities they present to advance our individual, organizational, and community goals and to inform and improve professional growth and practice.
This project-based course merges social science, information science and computer science approaches to explore the evolving social and technological forces driving social media services and to evaluate their affordances for practical and professional goals.