Online Community
The overall aim of this course is to introduce students with the skills of social media tools. It also aims to introduce key concepts and social platforms that have changed the media scenario. Using the representation of the virtual community as a focus, students will be introduced to ideas of the collective resourcing, user defined content, Web 2.0, media production and reporting on social media. Moreover, the courses will also focus on technology; sharing and marketing ideas and dealing with privacy, ethics and legal issues.
Course Material
- Online Community
- New Media: Emerging Mediums of Information (Cell Phones and Web Mediums)
- Social Media Evolution and Development
- Social Media Ethics
- Brief History of Social Media Websites (Google +, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- Social Media Skills for Journalists
- News as Conversation
- Blogging
- Midterm Paper
- VOD-casting and POD-casting Basics
- Social Media Marketing: Concept, Strategies and Tactics
- Future Trends and Developments in Social Media
- How one increase its social net working
- Cell phone evolution and Social Media (1-G to 4-G)
- Twitter for Journalist
- Social Media as an Alternative Public Sphere
- Final Term Paper
- Chapters 17
- Department Communication and Media Studies
- Teacher
Mr. Abdul Rehman Qaisar
