Introduction to New Media

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

This course will enable the students to –

  1. Understand the concept and tools of digital and social.
  2. Make the students understand the cyber ethics and its implications.
  3. Understand the risks and challenges of digital media.

 

10.00
Unit I: 

New Media: Definition, Characteristics; Role of New Media in Creating Information Society, Computer Mediated-Communication (CMC); Networked Society

 

15.00
Unit 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: 

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: 

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: 

Blogging, Types of Blogs; Types of Websites, Content creation for Online and Web Platforms

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Communication Media and Information Technology (2005). Goel Commonwealth Publishers. New Delhi.
  • Web Advertising and Online Marketing: Technology and Strategies of E- Marketing (2004). P.P Singh, Sandhir Sharma. Deep and Deep Publication. New Delhi.
  • Cyber Media Journalism: Emerging technologies (2003). Jagdish Chakravarthy. Authorpress. Delhi.
  • New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality (2003). Anna Everett. Routledge. UK.
  • Handbook of Online Journalism (2010). Swati Chauhan, Kanishka Publishers, Delhi.
  • Information Technology in Journalism (2002).Om Gupta. Kanishka Publishers. Delhi.
  • New Media Development and Globalization (2013). Don Malden Slater, Polity Press. UK
  • New media development and globalization (2013). Don. Malden Slater, Polity Press, UK.
  • Digital Broadcasting Journalism (2003). J.K. Sharma, Authorspress, Delhi.
  • Elements of Internet and Online Journalism (2015). Naveen Chandra Pant Kanishka Publishers, NewDelhi
  • Emerging Trends in Journalism (1999). Rahul Mudgal, Sarupand Sons, Delhi.          
  • Techniques of Feature Writing and Mass Communication (2014). Neha Arora Random Publications, New Delhi.
  • Writing for the Internet (2002).Jane Dorner, Unistar Books Pvt. Ltd, Punjab.
  • Writing for the Media (2010).Usha Raman, Oxford University Press,Jaipur.

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023
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