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New Media and Convergence [1]

Paper Code: 
JMC 223
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to -

 

  • Discuss the Role and Characteristics of New Media 
  • Explain the concept and tools of digital and social.
  • Analyse cyber ethics and its implications

 

Course Outcome (COs):

 

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

Paper   Code

Paper Title

JMC

223

New Media and Convergence

 

CO40: Students will be able to learn about the new media ecologies, elements of transmedia, gaming and storytelling techniques.

CO41: Students will able to learn the new media practices, podcasting, social tv, video conferencing etc.

CO42: Students will learn about the internet governance and regulatory framework.

CO43: Students will learn about the cyber activism concept and scope of new media.

CO44: Students will equip themselves with the concept of digital democracy.

 

Approach in teaching:

Lecture cum Discussion Tool (Power Point Presentation)

Lecture cum Discussion

Tool (Power Point Presentation) and case study.

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Class test,

Continuous Assessment Test

Semester end examination

Assignments

 

15.00
  • Role and Characteristics of New Media
  • Computer mediated-Communication (CMC)
  • Networked Society
  • New Media technologies
  • Online Communities
  • Alternative Journalism
  • Activism and New Media
15.00
  • Understanding New Media Ecologies
  • Elements of Trans-media
  • Narratives across multiple media platforms
  • Gaming and Storytelling  Digital games player cultures online games and their impact; New media art
  • Video Conferencing and IPTV
10.00
  • Piracy
  • Copyright
  • Copy left and Open source
  • Digital archives, Cyber security
  • Online Databases
  • Surveillance and Cyber terror
  • New IT Rules 2021 (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code)
10.00
  • Writing of New Media Structure and characteristics of Internet news stories
  • Overview of Web Writing: Linear and Non-linear writing
  • Contextualized Journalism
  • Writing Techniques
  • Linking, Multimedia
  • News Applications
10.00
  • Digital Divide
  • Digital Democracy Convergence Culture 
  • Social Media and participatory media culture
  • Digital fandom and online communities
  • New Media Campaigns 
Essential Readings: 
  • ew Media Development and Globalization (2013). Slater Don. Malden: Polity Press, UK.
  • Social Media(2015). Graham Meikle, Routedge and Kegan Ltd. UK.
  • Social Media and Networking: Concepts, Trends and Dimensions (2012). Kanishka Publishers, Delhi.
  • 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 & Deep Publication, New Delhi.
  • Cyber Media Journalism: Emerging technologies (2003). JagdishChkravarthy. Authorpress, Delhi.
References: 
  • New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality(2003). Anna Everett. Routledge, UK.
  • Encyclopedia of Cyber laws (2011). Sujeet Kumar. ABD Publishers, Jaipur
  • Handbook of Online Journalism (2010).Swati Chauhan, Kanishka Publishers, Delhi.
  • Information Technology in Journalism (2002).Om Gupta, Kanishka Publishers, Delhi.

E-Resources:

Reference Journals:

 

  • Media Watch
  • The Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism
  • Journal of Media and Communication
  • Amity Journal of Media and Communication Studies
  • International Journal of Communication
  • Critical Studies in Media Communication
Academic Year: 
2023-2024 [10]

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