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Undergraduate Catalog 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

COMM 354 - Social Media and Virtual Communities 3 hours

This course examines the ways humans communicate via social media and virtual communities. Grounded in communication theory, students appropriately engage, first-hand, with social media technologies to explore the manners of electronic communications maintenance, manipulation and community building. Technologies pertaining to this course include: smart mobs, blogs, collaboration tools, podcasts, viral video, social bookmarking and other evolving technologies. Prerequisite: COMM 214 .