MEDIA 214

Social Media

Please note: this is archived course information from 2024 for MEDIA 214.

Description

Addresses issues related to the use of social media and considers in particular the influence of new media corporations such as Facebook, as well as platforms like Twitter, SnapChat, Tinder and YouTube. Explores our cultural practices and social rituals in relation to these peer-to-peer, one-to-many media technologies, and examines this revolution in the media landscape.

For full course information see the Digital Course Outline. 

Digital Course Outlines are refreshed in November for the following year. Digital Course Outlines for courses to be offered for the first time may be published slightly later.

Availability 2024

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Lecturer(s) Professor Neal Curtis

Points

MEDIA 214: 15 points

Prerequisites

15 points at Stage I in Media and Screen Studies and 30 points passed, or 30 points in Communication

Restrictions

COMMS 204, MEDIA 314