Introduction to New Media

Paper Code: 
CJMC 401
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to understand the concept and tools of digital and social media along with the risks and challenges of digital media. The students will also be acquzinted with the cyber ethics and its implications.

 

10.00
Unit I: 
I

New Media: Definition, Characteristics; Role of new media in Creating Information society, Computer mediated-Communication (CMC);Networked Society.

 

 

 

 

15.00
Unit II: 
II

Internet and its Beginnings, Remediation and New Media technologies; Online Communities; User Generated Content and Web 2.0;Networked Journalism, Alternative Journalism; Social Media in Context, Activism and New Media.

15.00
Unit III: 
III

Digital Divide, Digitization of Media and its effects on media Authorship and what it means in a digital age, Piracy, Copyright, Copyleft and Open source; Digital archives;.

10.00
Unit IV: 
IV

Internet Journalism, Developing news stories for Internet, Structure and characteristics of Internet news stories, Overview of Web Writing: Linear and Non-linear writing ;Contextualized Journalism; Writing Techniques, Linking, Multimedia.

10.00
Unit V: 
V

Blogging, types of blogs; Brief history of Websites: Definition, Characteristics and types of websites; Concept of Citizen Journalism; Online Journalism.

Essential Readings: 
  1. Vincent Miller. Understanding digital culture. Sage Publications, 2011. Lev Manovich. 2001. “What is New Media?” In The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 19-48. Siapera, Eugenia. Understanding new media. Sage, 2011. Introduction. Baym, Nancy K. Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Polity, 2010. Chapter 3.
  2. Goldsmith, Jack, and Tim Wu. 2006. Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World. Oxford University Press US.
  3. O’Reilly, Tim. (2005). What is web 2.0: Design patterns and business models for the next generations software.
  4. Grossman, “Iran Protests: Twitter, the Medium of the Movement”
  5. Lemann, Nicholas. 2006. Amateur Hour: Journalism without Journalists. 
  6. The New Yorker, August 7. Available at http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/07/060807fa_fact1
  7. Xiang, Biao. 2005. Gender, Dowry and the Migration System of Indian Information Technology Professionals. Indian Journal of Gender Studies 12: 357-380.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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