COMM 3320 - Introduction to Digital Media

3 Credit(s)

This course encourages hands-on familiarity with a variety of digital media, explores the history of computing, digital media and the internet and discusses ethical consideration and implications of how that history is told. The first part of the course will focus on developing an understanding of the major theories of digital media, including technological determinism, social determinism and technological affordances. The second part of the course will emphasize effectively analyze digital communication through the use of concepts such as affordance, rhetorical choice and audience selection and will ask students to rigorously interrogate the implications digital media offers for communication today.

Selective
Advanced liberal arts selective, advanced social science selective.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 2210 or SOCI 2210 with a C- or better.