New Media and Global Affairs

  • NINT 5280 - New Media and Global Affairs (Fall 2008)

Section A/CRN 5913 (syllabus)
Laura Forlano
Thursday 8.00pm - 9.50pm

New media - blogs, wikis and other interactive technologies - are increasingly important to the work of organizations engaged in global affairs. This course surveys current developments in new media - collaborative filtering, open source software, users as producers, virtual communities - and their implications for non-profit organizations, the private sector, government and international organizations. How are these technologies reshaping the mass media, and thereby changing global affairs by altering the way we see ourselves or the way we perceive other cultures? What are the best practices in terms of applying these technologies for social, political and economic change?

Concentration:Media and Culture