Digital Media Literacy: Analyzing Forms, Practices, and Infrastructures of Mediated Public Life

4 credits

The role of digital communication in a democratic system, and the ways mass media both facilitate and inhibit the development of a viable public sphere. By exploring today’s digital communication dynamics, students will have the opportunity to become more mindful, active consumers of media and to feel empowered to be engaged participants in public life. This is a distance education course. No credit for COMM 30R if taken after COMM 30 or COMM 30GS.