ModsCS4315
Social Media Self Society
Social media services such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have become an omnipresent class of communication that is continuously transforming the ways we communicate in everyday life. This course applies theories of communication to analyze the design and effects of social media on individual, social, and political outcomes. In doing so, we will consider topics that include social networks and contagion, identity management, memes, and viral trends, opinion formation and reinforcement, algorithms and bots, privacy and surveillance, rumors and misinformation, and civic engagement and mobilization. At the end of the course, the students will gain the expertise, critical reasoning ability, and analytical skills to efficiently create, consume, and evaluate the cognitive and sociopolitical effects of social media.
| AUs | 4.0 AUs |
| Exam | N/A |
| Grade Type | N/A |
| Maintaining Dept | N/A |
| Prerequisites | N/A |
| Mutually Exclusive With | N/A |
| Not Available To Programme | N/A |
| Not Available To All Programme With | Yr1 |
| Not available as Core for programmes | N/A |
| Not Available as PE for programmes | N/A |
| Not Available as BDE/UEs for programmes | N/A |
| Not Offered To | N/A |
Total hours per week: 3 hrs
Available Indexes
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| 1030 | COMMON LEC (LE) 1030-1320 Wed SCI-SR2 | ||||
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